I would add - you don't necessarily need to read all 550 pages, but you must read through the idea of value investing - and it will change your way of looking at the world. *Book: 'You either get the idea in the first five minutes, or you don't get it at all', said Warren Buffet in the epilogue. If you are not a professional - you'll appreciate the commentaries and epilogue - read it first? It's very inspiring. *Edition: I found commentary very useful (though often distracting). Graham also taught at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.īio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In fact, Graham had such an overwhelming influence on his students that two of them, Buffett and Kahn, named their sons Howard Graham Buffett and Thomas Graham Kahn after him. Buffett, who credits Graham as grounding him with a sound intellectual investment framework, described him as the second most influential person in his life after his own father. Graham's most well-known disciples include Warren Buffett, William J. Graham had many disciples in his lifetime, a number of whom went on to become successful investors themselves. Graham is considered the father of value investing, an investment approach he began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd through various editions of their famous book Security Analysis.

Benjamin Graham (/ɡræm/ born Benjamin Grossbaum – September 21, 1976) was a British-born American economist and professional investor.

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