Warren Buffett on Benjamin Graham: “Making money did not motivate him”

Louisa Serene Schneider '06 interviews Warren Buffett MS '51 on his experience learning from Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing. Learn more at http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/valueinvesting/resources/interviews

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1. Benjamin Graham was a scholar and financial analyst who mentored legendary investors such as Warren Buffett, William J. Ruane, Irving Kahn and Walter J. Schloss.
   
   Warren Buffett once wrote a lengthy article explaining how Graham's principles are everlasting, and how Graham's record of creating exceptional investors (such as Buffett himself) is unquestionable. The article is called "The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville".
   
   Buffett describes Graham's book - The Intelligent Investor - as "by far the best book about investing ever written" (in its preface, which Buffett wrote). In The Intelligent Investor, Graham recommended various categories of stocks and specified precise qualitative and quantitative rules for each category.
   
   Serenity Stocks shows how one can assess 5000+ NYSE and NASDAQ stocks by a complete 17-point Benjamin Graham assessment, with no adjustments other than those for inflation.
2. The great Benjamin Graham.