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The Little Book That Still Beats the Market: The Magic Formula That's Almost Too Simple 📘✨

Joel Greenblatt wrote a book with a bold claim: he's figured out a simple formula that beats the market, and he's going to share it with you. For free. In a book you can read in an afternoon.Sounds too good to be true, right? That's what makes "The Little Book That Still Beats the Market" so interesting. Because Greenblatt isn't some internet guru selling a course. He's a legendary investor who ran Gotham Capital, achieving 40% annual returns for a decade. He teaches at Columbia Business School. He manages billions.And he's saying: here's a stupidly simple approach that works. Anyone can do it. You don't need to be smart. You don't need special access. You just need discipline.So what's the catch?

November 2nd, 2025

The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders 🎩✨

Jack Schwager's "The New Market Wizards" is the sequel to his legendary "Market Wizards," and it's basically a masterclass in how the best traders in the world actually think. This isn't a typical investing book with theories and frameworks. It's a series of in-depth interviews with traders who've achieved extraordinary success—people who've turned small stakes into fortunes, who've survived decades in the markets, who've found edges that actually work. The beautiful thing? They all do it differently. Completely differently. Which itself is one of the book's most important lessons.

November 2nd, 2025

The Most Important Thing: Howard Marks on What Actually Matters in Investing 🎯

Howard Marks doesn't write books to sell you a system or promise you riches. He writes to make you think—really think—about what investing actually is and how the best investors approach it. "The Most Important Thing" is a collection of insights from someone who's been in the game for over 50 years, managing billions of dollars through boom times and crashes, manias and panics. And the beautiful irony of the title? There isn't just one "most important thing." There are about twenty of them. Each chapter is titled "The Most Important Thing Is..." and explores a different crucial concept. Marks is saying: all of these things matter. Ignore any of them at your peril. This isn't a book for beginners looking for hot stock tips. It's a book for people who want to understand how exceptional investors think differently from everyone else.

November 2nd, 2025

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits: The Investment Classic That Still Matters 📈

Philip Fisher wrote "Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits" in 1958, and here's the wild part—it's still one of the most relevant investing books you can read today.While most investment books age like milk, this one aged like wine. Warren Buffett has called Fisher one of his major influences. Charlie Munger studied his methods. Even in an era of algorithms and high-frequency trading, Fisher's principles for finding exceptional companies remain remarkably applicable.This isn't a book about quick trades or technical analysis. It's about finding outstanding companies, understanding them deeply, and holding them for the long haul. In other words, it's about actual investing, not gambling with a Bloomberg terminal.

November 2nd, 2025

Rich Dad Poor Dad: The Book That Changed How Millions Think About Money 💰

Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad Poor Dad" is one of those books that people either swear by or swear at. There's not much middle ground.Since it came out in 1997, it's sold over 40 million copies and become arguably the most influential personal finance book ever written. It's also been criticized, debated, and dissected more than almost any other money book out there.But here's the thing: whether you agree with everything in it or not, the core ideas are worth wrestling with. Because they challenge basically everything most of us were taught about money growing up.

November 2nd, 2025

The Man Who Cracked Wall Street's Code 📈

Jim Simons didn't look like your typical Wall Street titan. With his scraggly beard and rumpled shirts, he looked more like a college professor who'd lost track of time in his office—which, technically, he was. But this mathematician would go on to achieve something that seemed impossible: he beat the market, consistently, for decades.

November 1st, 2025

Business Valuation and Financial Ratio Analysis: Making Sense of the Numbers 📊

"Unternehmensbewertung und Kennzahlenanalyse" (Business Valuation and Financial Ratio Analysis) might sound like a textbook that cures insomnia, but it's actually a comprehensive guide to understanding what companies are really worth and how to read the story their numbers tell. Whether you're an investor, analyst, or business owner, these concepts are the foundation of making informed decisions.

November 1st, 2025

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Masterclass in Skepticism 🔍

David Einhorn's "Fooling Some of the People All of the Time" isn't your typical business book. It's a financial thriller, a cautionary tale, and a frustrating exposé of how broken systems protect the wrong people. At its heart, it's the story of one hedge fund manager's decade-long battle against Allied Capital—a company he believed was committing fraud in plain sight.

November 1st, 2025

What Fortune’s Formula Teaches About Risk, Edge, and the Mathematics of Luck

Every so often, you come across a book that quietly changes how you see risk — not as something to fear, but as something to understand. Fortune’s Formula by William Poundstone does exactly that. It’s not just about the math behind the Kelly criterion or the gamblers who inspired it; it’s about how information, probability, and human behavior collide to shape both fortune and failure. It’s a story that starts in the world of gambling but ends up explaining the psychology of modern finance.

November 1st, 2025

What You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Really Teaches — Beyond the Title

The title sounds like a gimmick, but the book isn’t. Joel Greenblatt’s You Can Be a Stock Market Genius is one of those rare investing books that quietly rewires how you think about markets. It’s not about tips or trends — it’s about noticing what others overlook, thinking independently, and doing the kind of work most people skip. The irony is that the “genius” part has little to do with intelligence. It’s about patience, curiosity, and the willingness to look where no one else bothers to.

November 1st, 2025

🌍 Lessons from Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio

A guide to understanding the hidden patterns behind financial meltdowns

October 22nd, 2025

💰 Lessons from The Richest Man in Babylon

Timeless Principles of Wealth That Still Matter Today Some books on money go out of date quickly. The Richest Man in Babylon, written almost a century ago, somehow doesn’t. Its setting is ancient Babylon, but the lessons could be straight out of a modern finance handbook. The genius of the book lies in its simplicity — it teaches financial wisdom through short parables, using storytelling instead of theory. And despite the old-fashioned tone, every principle still applies to how we earn, save, and grow wealth today.

October 11th, 2025

Key Lessons from Accounting Made Simple by Mike Piper

Accounting is one of those skills that quietly underpins every business decision — yet most of us only ever scratch the surface. When I read Accounting Made Simple by Mike Piper, what struck me was how much of accounting is really about understanding relationships between numbers, not memorizing rules.

October 11th, 2025

Lessons from University of Berkshire Hathaway

30 Years of Wisdom from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger The book University of Berkshire Hathaway distills decades of insights from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger at Berkshire Hathaway’s legendary shareholder meetings. Beyond numbers and investing tactics, it’s a masterclass in decision-making, human behavior, and the philosophy of living well. Here are the key takeaways:

September 30th, 2025

Lessons from 100 Baggers: The Blueprint for Finding Life-Changing Investments

In 100 Baggers, Christopher Mayer explores how ordinary companies turned into extraordinary wealth creators—multiplying investments by 100x or more. The secret isn’t luck, but a combination of traits: founder-led businesses with skin in the game, high returns on capital, reinvestment machines, and long runways for growth. But spotting these companies is only half the journey—the real challenge is having the patience to hold them through decades of compounding. If you want to screen for potential multibaggers, focus on filters like: high insider ownership, scalable markets, durable competitive advantages, strong balance sheets, and reasonable valuations. The formula is simple: buy right, hold long, and let compounding do the heavy lifting.

September 28th, 2025