Timeless investing strategies for any economy—in this step-by-step guide, you will learn the formula Warren Buffet used to succeed. For five decades, Warren Buffett has been making himself one of the wealthiest men in the world, amassing more than 30 billion dollars by investing in the stock market. Remarkably, he did it by spurning popular Wall Street trends, adhering instead to his own unique discipline, one the world has come to know as Buffettology. In The Buffettology Workbook, internationally acclaimed writer and lecturer Mary Buffett has again joined forces with David Clark, the world's leading authority on Warren Buffett's investment methods, to create an in-depth, step-by-step guide to the concepts and equations Warren Buffett uses to create fantastic wealth. Here you will learn: -The difference between a great company and a great undervalued company -How the short-sightedness of Wall Street pundits can work to your advantage -Where to look for investments with long-term, consistent, and extraordinary growth potential -To perform the same financial calculations Buffett uses, and apply them to stocks you'd like to buy Start learning and earning with the help of The Buffettology Workbook ! Stevin Hoover Hoover Capital Management Absolutely the best book ever written on Warren Buffett's investment methods. BusinessWeek A probe inside the head of a financial genius. Rocky Mountain News (Denver) One of the best books about mega investor Warren Buffett. Mary Buffett is the coauthor of Scribner’s bestselling Buffettology series, and a contributor to HuffPost and the online magazine Thrive Global. Mary’s online school—BuffettOnlineSchool.com—provides monthly investment insights and helps students learn to build successful stock portfolios. For over twenty years, David Clark has been considered the world’s leading authority on the subject of Warren Buffett’s investment methods. His international bestselling investment books, The Tao of Charlie Munger and those coauthored with Mary Buffett— Buffettology , The Buffettology Workbook , The New Buffettology , The Tao of Warren Buffett , Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements , The Management Secrets of Warren Buffett , Warren Buffett and The Art of Stock Arbitrage , and The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio —have been translated into more than twenty languages and are considered “investment classics” the world over. Chapter One: Short-Sightedness and the Bad News Phenomenon: The Gifts That Keep On Giving Short-sightedness and the bad news phenomenon. What are these things and what do they have to do with Warren Buffett? The answer is everything. If the vast majority of the stock market were not short-sighted, Warren Buffett would never have an opportunity to buy some of the world's greatest businesses at discount prices. He could never have bought 1.7 million shares of The Washington Post twenty-seven years ago for approximately $6.14 a share. The Washington Post now trades at approximately $500 a share, which makes his $10.2 million initial investment worth approximately $863.8 million today. That equates to a pretax annual compounding rate of return of 17.8%. Without the short-sightedness of the stock market, Warren could not have bought Coca-Cola for $5.22 a share twelve years ago. It now trades at approximately $50 a share, which equates to a pretax annual compounding rate of return of approximately 21%. Warren discovered early on in his career that 95% of the participants in the stock market, from Internet day traders to mutual fund managers who manage billions, are only interested in making a quick buck. Yes, some pay lip service to the importance of long-term investing, but in truth they are stuck on making fast money. Warren found that no matter how intelligent a person is, the nature of the beast controls the investor's actions. Take mutual fund managers. If you talk to any of them, they will tell you that they are under great pressure to produce the highest yearly results possible. This is because mutual funds are marketed to a lay public that is only interested in investing in funds that earn top performance ratings in any given year. Imagine a mutual fund manager telling his or her marketing team that their fund ranked in the bottom 10% for performance out of all the mutual funds in America. Do you think the marketing team would jump up and down with joy and go out and drop a couple of million on advertising to let the world know that their fund ranked in the bottom 10%? No. More likely our underperforming fund manager would lose his or her job and some promising young hot shot would take over the fund's investment allocations. Don't believe it? Ask people you know why they chose to invest in a particular mutual fund and they will more than likely tell you it was because the fund was ranked as a top performer. The nature of the mutual fund beast influences a lot of very smart peo