Books Recommended by Warren Buffett

The best book I read last year. Phil is... a gifted storyteller.

To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. This book precisely and clearly prescribes the proper framework. You must provide the emotional discipline.

In 1991, Bill Gates asked Buffett for his favorite book. In reply, Buffett sent the Microsoft founder his personal copy of Business Adventures, a collection of New Yorker stories by John Brooks.

I think this is one of the best books I've ever read.

Last fall, Charlie and I read Jack Welch's terrific book, Jack, Straight from the Gut (get a copy!).

When I see memos from Howard Marks in my mail, they’re the first thing I open and read. I always learn something, and that goes double for his book.

Buffett said that Security Analysis, another groundbreaking work of Graham's, had given him a road map for investing that he has been following for 57 years.

Look at my friend, Bill Gates, who decided that it was far more important to get underway in an exploding industry that would change the world than it was to stick around for a parchment that he could hang on the wall. (Read his new book, Source Code.)

Buffett says that the former secretary of the U.S. Treasury's book about the financial crisis is a must-read for any manager.

This is that rarity, a useful book.

While investor Philip Fisher--who specialized in investing in innovative companies--didn't shape Buffett in quite the same way as Graham did, Buffett still holds him in the highest regard.

In Dream Big, Cristiane Correa tells the story of the three Brazilians who founded 3G Capital, an investment firm that joined Buffett in purchasing H.J. Heinz in 2013. Buffett recommended the book at the 2014 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting.

Reading Keynes will make you smarter about securities and markets, I'm not sure reading most economists would do the same.

I'm glad I didn't have to do the job that these three ‘fire chiefs’ did. I learned much from this book I had not previously known. Its cautions for the future should be required reading for all policy makers.

As Secretary of the Treasury, Bob Rubin ranked with the best. This drama-packed account of his years on the job should be read by all who are interested in what happens when politics and economics intersect.

In his 2004 shareholder letter, Buffett called it a "must-read for those concerned with the safety of our country."

In Buffett's 2002 shareholder letter, he explains "how accounting standards and audit quality have eroded in recent years." Specifically, he cites the downfall of Arthur Andersen accounting. "The details of this sordid affair are related in Levitt's excellent book, Take on the Street," Buffett writes.

John Bogle's The Clash of the Cultures is another recommendation from the 2012 [Buffett's] shareholder letter.

In his 2014 shareholder letter, Buffett recommended reading this book over listening to the advice of most financial advisers.

Well-reported and well-written.

The funniest book ever written about investing, Warren Buffett proclaimed in his 2006 shareholder letter, it lightly delivers many truly important messages on the subject.