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Value Investing with Legends

Value investing is more than an investment strategy — it's a fundamental way of thinking about finance. Value investing was developed in the 1920s at Columbia Business School by professors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, MS '21. The authors of the classic text, Security Analysis, Graham and Dodd were the very pioneers of their field and their security analysis principles provided the first rational basis for investme

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Know Thyself: The Base Minimum Every Investor Needs to Know
Nov 2026
Corporate Athletes: Durable Competitive Advantages and Long-Term Investing
Oct 2026 · 4 books
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7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer
“Let me just circle back around and just you mentioned Hamilton Helmer and the book there for our listeners just to make sure is a book called Seven Powers”
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The Money Masters
John Train
“Every couple of years I re read the Warren Buffett chapter. In the original Money Masters by John Train”
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Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Michael Porter
“reading Michael Porter's competitive advantage framework is the standard part of our Research platform”
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
“I just finished Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs”
Eddie Perkin - Battling Biases and Building Better Investment Teams
Jul 2026 · 3 books
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
“Robis Crusoe, of course, is a book by Daniel Dafoe”
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The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichirō Kishimi
“I'm currently reading a book called Courage the courage to be disliked”
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The Quest for Value
G. Bennett Stewart III
“His partner Bennett Stewart wrote a book called Quest for Value”
Django Davidson - The Capital Cycle: Finding Opportunity Where Others Aren't Looking
Jun 2026 · 2 books
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Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
Ed Conway
“A friend of mine, Ed Conway, wrote a book called The Material World”
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The Bolter
Frances Osborne
“a book given to me by Jeremy a couple of weeks ago called The Balter”
Jim Flynn - Building a Healthcare Investment Platform Across Public, Private, and Venture
Jun 2026
Matthew Fine - Buying Gray Clouds and Building Resilient Portfolios
May 2026 · 4 books
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The Sugar King of Havana
John Paul Rathbone
“I just finished a book. It was pretty fun, actually. It was called The Sugar King of Havana”
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How the World Really Works
Vaclav Smil
“I really liked a book by Vakov Smeel called How the World Really Works”
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Pioneering Portfolio Management
David Swensen
“the probably the best investment book, in my view, that I maybe have ever read is David Swanson's pioneering portfolio management”
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Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know About
Marian L. Tupy and Ronald Bailey
“funny name called Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know About. And it's a book. I'm forgetting the other author's name by a guy named Marian Tupy”
Jenny Harrington - Dividend Investing, Risk Management, and Building Reliable Income Streams
Apr 2026
Jenny Harrington - Dividend Investing, Risk Management, and Building Reliable Income Streams
Apr 2026 · 4 books
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Dividend Investing
Jenny Harrington
“is the author of the book, Dividend Investing, published in 2025”
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
Peter Kaufman
“I listened to recently is poor Charlie's almanac”
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Pioneering Portfolio Management
David Swensen
“I actually re-listened to David”
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Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
“I really, really loved the Walter Isaacson Elon Musk biography”
Samer Sarraf - Investing in the GCC: Private Equity Discipline in Public Markets
Mar 2026 · 7 books
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
“reading a lot of the finance books, like The Barbarians at the Gate or Myers Poker and getting excited about the world”
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The Forge
unknown
“I used to read a lot more financial books. So things like, you know, The Outsiders or The Forge or like one up on Wall Street”
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One Up on Wall Street
Peter Lynch
“I used to read a lot more financial books. So things like, you know, The Outsiders or The Forge or like one up on Wall Street”
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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
William N. Thorndike
“I used to read a lot more financial books. So things like, you know, The Outsiders or The Forge or like one up on Wall Street”
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Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
“my favorite right now recently finished is Prisoners of Geography. reading that book and and and seeing what's happening now”
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Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
“Another one is it can't hurt me and that's more about how to challenge yourself, how to fight your way through the mental blocks”
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The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
“Another third book, I think it'll be The 100 Year Life”
Ricky Sandler - Investing Through Perception Shifts and Market Cycles
Dec 2025
Robert Robotti - From Pink Sheets to Portfolio Management: Bob Robotti's Value Investing Journey
Nov 2025
Richard Brekka - From Venture to Secondaries: Richard Brekka on Illiquid Market Advantages
Nov 2025
Amit Wadhwaney - From Montreal to Moerus: Amit Wadhwaney's Deep Value Discipline
Oct 2025
Bill Ackman - Evolving Investment Playbook, From MBIA to Moats
Oct 2025
Kristin Gilbertson - Risk, Resilience, and Returns
Aug 2025
Seth Klarman - Contrarian Investing, Discipline, and Building Baupost
Aug 2025
Kent Daniel — From Physics to Finance: Exploring Market Inefficiencies
Jul 2025
Cliff Asness — Quant Origins, Value Crashes, and Market Inefficiencies
Jul 2025
Phil Ruvinsky - Sustainable Competitive Advantages in Technology
Jul 2024
Anu Bradford - EU Influence, Big Tech Challenges, and the Future of Digital Governance
Jun 2024
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