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30 of 34 people found the following review helpful

Who Wants To Be A Billionaire? 20 November 2000

By MICHAEL L. OBRIEN — Published on Amazon.com

Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase

Legendary billionaire Warren Buffett is considered by many to be the world’s greatest value investor. How To Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett is a book that guides the ordinary investor though Buffett’s methods to profit using his bargain hunting strategies.

As Buffett is quoted as saying in the book, To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off knowing nothing of these. That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects. In our view, though, investment students need only two well taught courses — How to Value a Business, and How to Think About Market Prices.

How To Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett does detail effectively, in easy-to-understand language, Buffett’s methodology in analyzing and evaluating businesses and attitudes about market prices, as well as the investment decision-making process, and philosophy about developing good investment habits.

Buffett’s rules and methods for investment success are carefully outlined, including the importance of developing a mathematical mind, using a buy-and-hold strategy for companies with strong franchises, growing book value and return on equity, using the magic 15 Percent Rule, comparing stocks to bonds, avoiding losses, and stringing small gains together with takeovers.

How To Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett contains charts and case studies with pertinent and contemporary examples, including studies of technology companies. A chapter, Your Competitive Advantage Over Buffett — The Internet, details several web sites that provide information, research and investment tools for value-oriented investors.

This book is relevant for value conscious investors who wish to formulate an intelligent and consistent approach to investment management.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful

What drives Buffett—the consummate guide 7 December 2000

By chambers1 — Published on Amazon.com

Format: Hardcover

Multi-billionaire Warren Buffett does not hide the fact that his goals are to amass wealth—and neither does Mr. Vick’s book. The author’s book mirrors the extraordinary passion (for, after all, Mr. Buffett invests in people—and passionately, as readers shall learn) that drives the unprecedented success of the holding company Mr. Buffett manages, Berkshire Hathaway.

This book was written by a self-professed disciple, not a biographer, of Mr. Buffett, his work, both past and in-progress. For a novice such as I, the book was anything but a soap box preaching on how to become. Rather, this is a magnum opus—a comprehensive, easy-to-follow true inside look at a buck-the-trend investor—the very principles, products, services and industries he understands through years of the fun of making money and watching it grow.

Sure, Mr. Vick scratches the biographical surface of this legendary professional—how could he not? After all, Mr. Vick himself has come to know Mr. Buffett—through extensive research, Mr. Vick’s own tried-and-true Contrarian investing and more. How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett contains unique insight on Mr. Buffett, the man, and Mr. Buffett’s strategies for gaining market-winning results, estimating a company’s future earnings and measuring the yardstick of this mentor’s investment portfolio.

Written by an award-winning journalist and analyst who routinely offers objective and articulate insight to the national media, including TV and radio—I’ve taken the trouble to track his quotes; hence, my submission of my review—this book was a great starter for a reader who simply wanted to know more about this legendary figure—and the professional, particularly, his convertibles, options and other secret weapons.

At worst, it’s a mere tool for helping to shape—agree or disagree with Mr. Vick’s/Mr. Buffett’s philosophy—your own investment strategies. Are you into arbitrage? Read and learn. At its very best, this book shines with its breadth on Mr. Buffett’s lead. It’s filled with in-depth tips for how to follow Mr. Buffett’s clearly outlined set of tracks.

Again, this was written with keen turn-of-phrase—concisely and with the understated depth of a consummate newspaper reporter and analyst extraordinaire. A real page-turner. I’ve read Mr. Vick’s previous books; I now look forward to his next.

24 of 29 people found the following review helpful

Great Ideas; Terrible proofreading 3 October 2000

By Kyran J. Flaherty — Published on Amazon.com