Book pair (maybe obviously, but): "One Up On Wall Street" & "Common Sense on Mutual Funds" - 180 degrees from each other on takeaways, but together provide a wonderful perspective on the options available to non-professional investors.
That's a good point. I think I benefited in my earlier days as an investor starting out with the indexing stuff, Boggle stuff, all about market efficiency and low cost indexes.. So by the time I started learning about Buffett and stock-picking, I already had a lot of respect for how hard it is to successfully do, so all the books about successful stock-pickers that kind of make it sound easy didn't fully make me go crazy thinking I could do it.
I still made huge mistakes, but I think it would've been worse without this foundation...
Book pair (maybe obviously, but): "One Up On Wall Street" & "Common Sense on Mutual Funds" - 180 degrees from each other on takeaways, but together provide a wonderful perspective on the options available to non-professional investors.
That's a good point. I think I benefited in my earlier days as an investor starting out with the indexing stuff, Boggle stuff, all about market efficiency and low cost indexes.. So by the time I started learning about Buffett and stock-picking, I already had a lot of respect for how hard it is to successfully do, so all the books about successful stock-pickers that kind of make it sound easy didn't fully make me go crazy thinking I could do it.
I still made huge mistakes, but I think it would've been worse without this foundation...