The book of investing wisdom : classic writings by great stock-pickers and legends of Wall Street / edited by Peter Krass.

Other author Krass, Peter.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Wiley, 1999.
Descriptionxiv, 498 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Investment analysis.
Securities.

Contents Track record is everything / Warren E. Buffett -- People factor / Philip Fisher -- Study of the stock market / Henry Clews -- Valuation of listed stocks / Arnold Bernhard -- Dangers of retrospective myopia / Paul F. Miller -- Get smart...and make a fortune / Jim Rogers -- Stalking the tenbagger / Peter Lynch -- Can ink blots tell you... / Adam Smith -- Do-it-yourself investing / Ellen Douglas Williamson -- Invesment versus speculation / John Moody -- Mandate for fund shareholders / John C. Bogle -- Wall Street millionaires / B.C. Forbes.
Contents Wall Street dream market / Fred Schwed -- Contrary opinion in stock market techniques / Edward C. Johnson -- Investing for the long term theory or just mumbo-jumbo? / Peter L. Bernstein -- Time-tested maxims of the Templeton touch / John Templeton -- Grand slam hitting / Mario Gabelli -- Importance of correct timing / Gerald M. Loeb -- When speculation becomes investment / Philip Carret -- Booms and busts / Charles H. Dow -- Dow theory / William Peter Hamilton -- Three different stock market movements / Roger W. Babson.
Contents Does a stock market slump mean a business slide-off? / Bernard M. Baruch -- Fundamental strength / Abby Joseph Cohen -- Market movements / Joseph E. Granville -- Importance of special knowledge / Arthur Crump -- Elvis, Frankenstein and Andy Warhol / Robert R. Prechter -- Stock exchange / W.W. Fowler -- Stock exchange as a stabilizing factor in American business / Edward H.H. Simmons -- New York Stock Exchange and public opinion / Otto Kahn -- Declaration of policy / Charles E. Merrill and E.A. Pierce -- Investing, hedge-fund style / Michael H. Steinhardt.
Contents Last frontier / Laura Pedersen -- Daniel Drew on Wall Street / Bouck White -- In defense of the stock exchange / Richard Whitney -- Professions of a short-termer / T. Boone Pickens -- Michael Milken, meet Sewell Avery / James Grant -- Haunting specter / Frank A. Vanderlip -- Vanished billions / Edwin Lefevre -- Wall Street investor / J. Paul Getty -- After Black Monday / George Soros -- Art of futures trading / Leo Melamed -- How to win big and lose small / Stanley Kroll -- Art of hedging / Benjamin Graham.
Contents Selling short--it's not un-American / Martin E. Zweig -- Trump cards: the elements of the deal / Donald J. Trump.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 487-490) and index.
LCCN 98054153
ISBN0471294543 (cloth : alk. paper)