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Security Analysis, Seventh Edition Principles and Techniques

Benjamin Graham

The classic work from the “father of value investing”―fully updated for today’s generation of investors First published in 1934,

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The book was referenced as the foundational text that shaped Michael Mauboussin's Columbia Business School course, but it was also described by another host as a dense, academic textbook not meant for casual reading. The podcast treated it as an important yet heavyweight resource.

Episode: Berkshire Hathaway Part I

Ben Gilbert described this as an academic textbook, not meant to be readable.

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Graham and Dodd together had written published security analysis Back in 1934, but that was a textbook. That was like an academic You know, I haven't read it, but like it's super thick dense. It's it's not meant to be readable

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The hosts highlighted the book as a foundational text by Graham that laid the groundwork for the value‑investing approach embraced by Buffett. They noted that it originated in the 1930s during the Great Depression and was taught in a Columbia class that Buffett attended. The discussion presented it as essential reading for understanding modern value investing.

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Episode: Warren Buffett Passes the Baton

The discussion highlighted Security Analysis as another foundational text by Graham that laid the groundwork for the valueinvesting approach Buffett embraced.

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He went to Columbia Business School, especially so that he could go to attend a class in value investing run by Benjamin Graham, who wrote The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis, basically the father of value investing.

And he published in the 1930s right at the bottom of the Depression and came up with these concepts for how, you know, the market might have gone down a lot.

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