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Review of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America by Warren Buffett and Lawrence Cunningham\ IN GENERAL INVESTING

Warren Buffet is a straight up old-school ‘what you see is what you get’ kind of businessman. Even when he writes to his shareholders, unlike most corporate bigwigs who use big words in a few sentence of a newsletter, Warren writes

few sentence of a newsletter, Warren writes about the numbers in the annual report as well as about himself, what he thinks and what he expects. In this book, which is an

amalgamation of the best of his writings by Lawrence Cunningham, you will get to read everything that the Berkshire Hathaway

shareholders read from Warren between 1979 and 2011. You should expect to read investment strategies he came up with, some of the best business practices his company used and tons of free advice suitable even for first time entrepreneIf I were to give you one solid reason to read this book it would be because I find Warren Buffet a very funny and a very wise man, everything he writes is important. I didn’t know much about Cunningham before I read this book but urs.

understand that he is not only the editor of the book but a partner who contributed a great portion of it. Over the years I have read a wide range of business books, journals and reports but this one is fascinating because they

weren’t written for a book reader – they are important official letters to other successful investors and the author is one of the most articulate and outspoken entrepreneurs in the world.

Cunningham’s major role was organizing the essays and putting them in sections between the prologue (P. 27 & 28) written by Warren and epilogue (P. 274 – 282) written by himself. The book is organized into 7 sections namely:

1. Corporate Governance

puts it “the fellow you are paying to make sure business is running”. He clearly demonstrates how positive energy and dedication combined with his natural leadership skills and

management principles gets you what you want, where you want and when you want it. He explains in great detail what he has learnt over the years and with a great sense of humor includes tons of personal experiences and observations

about the American investment market, its culture and economy and the most notable ups and downs of the last 25 to 30 years.
If you are the kind of reader who prefers to extract little information from a book

and apply it before coming back for a new dose, then the essays of Warren Buffett is the perfect book for you because you can choose to read one letter in a few

minutes and digest it for the rest of the day instead of waddling through fluff in a book and find your first point at the end of the chapter. The book is easily written but novices may find it a little difficult to keep the pace, this is perfect for intermediate investors.

First off, I will confess that there isn’t another book with a catchier title than ‘ Money Masters of our time ’. John Train is the reviewer of reviewers and

in this book he compiles brief profiles of about 17 greatest investors and money managers between the 80s and 90s, some of the very popular, successful and renowned but others may not be so