Alex Vayner

Favorite Books

Alright, I have a confession to make. I am a bit of a nerd, and read a lot of non-fiction books in few select areas. I truly believe that life-long learning is one of cornerstones to success. Bellow are few particularly good books, which I’d recommend to my friends:

Investing:

1. Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
2. Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition by Graham
3. The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham
4. The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America by Warren E. Buffett
5. You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits by Joel Greenblatt
6. Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports, Second Edition by Howard Schilit
7. How To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, 3rd Edition by William O’Neil
8. Value Investing With the Masters: Revealing Interviews With 20 Market-Beating Managers Who Have Stood the Test of Time by Kirk Kazanjian

9. The Little Book That Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt. Value investing handbook by successful money manager.
10. Value Investing by Bruce Greenwald. Rigorous discussion of valuation metrics.
11. The Essential Buffett by Robert Hagstrom. Outline of Buffett’s views.
12. Buffett by Roger Lowenstein. The best portrait of Buffett.
13. Contrarian Investment Strategies by Marty Whitman. Famed value-oriented fund manager on his methodology.
14. Pioneering Portfolio Management by David Swenson. Asset allocation and valuation by the market-beating manager of the Yale Endowment.

Trading:

1. Trader Vic-Methods of a Wall Street Master by Victor Sperandeo
2. Entries & Exits : Visits to 16 Trading Rooms by Dr. Alexander Elder
3. Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, Second Edition by Steve Nison
4. Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns (Wiley Trading) by Thomas N. Bulkowski
5. Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van Tharp
6. The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results by Michael W. Covel
7. The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes by Mark Douglas
8. Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager
9. Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance) by John J. Murphy

Entrepreneurship:

1. How To Make Millions With Your Ideas by Dan Kennedy
2. The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
3. Get Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham
4. The 4 Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
5. How to Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
6. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

Sales & Marketing:

1. Forbidden Keys to Persuasion by Blair Warren 2. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
3. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
4. Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith
5. The Secret of Selling Anything by Harry Browne
6. Made To Stick by Chip Heath

Writing:

1. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr.
2. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Joseph M. Williams
3. On Writing Well, The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William K. Zinsser
4. Simple & Direct by Jacques Barzun

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