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The Intelligent Investor

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Graham's definitive guide to value investing: buy securities trading below intrinsic value, demand a margin of safety, and ignore Mr. Market's daily mood swings. Warren Buffett has called it the best investment book ever written; it also appears on Bill Ackman's analyst reading list and Jamie Dimon's JP Morgan intern recommendations cited on Rooke's site.

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Bill Ackman

businessinsider.com · These Are the 12 Books That Bill Ackman Has His Analysts Read 2012 7

Required reading for Pershing Square analysts.
Warren Buffett

oreilly.com

“I read the first edition of this book early in 1950, when I was nineteen. I thought then that it was by far the best book about investing ever written. I still think it is.”

Quote is from Buffett's Preface to the Fourth Edition, reproduced in the revised edition.
Ryan Petersen

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“[One of the books in my] business book canon”

Bookmarked.club cites Petersen's tweet naming his business book canon.
Mohnish Pabrai

Pabrai traces his cloning of the Graham-Buffett method to Graham's foundational text on margin of safety and Mr. Market.
Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison's Bookshelf
David Heinemeier Hansson

twitter.com

DHH named it in his five business books tweet.
Li Lu

himcap.com

Listed first in the 'Value Investing, Finance, and Capitalism' section of Li Lu's published Recommended Book List (Himalaya Capital, May 2020).
Seth Klarman

marketfolly.com · Seth Klarmans Recommended Reading List.html

Recommended on Klarman's reading list given at the CFA Institute Annual Conference in Boston, May 2010 (during his on-stage interview with Jason Zweig).