Of Permanent Value
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Of Permanent Value
| Full title | Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett |
|---|---|
| Author | Andrew Kilpatrick |
| Published | 1992 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Andrew Kilpatrick’s enormous, unauthorised, obsessively detailed chronicle of Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, assembled from annual reports, meeting transcripts, newspaper morgues and interviews — not a lesson drawn from the Berkshire case but the archive of evidence it would be drawn from. |
Of Permanent Value
Where I heard about it
- Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, the 137-entry Himalaya Capital bibliography, under Value Investing, Finance, and Capitalism — a section built around primary and near-primary material (Graham, Munger, Buffett’s own record) rather than technique books.
About this edition
Kilpatrick, a Birmingham stockbroker and former newspaperman, has self-published and revised the book almost every year since 1992, adding the previous year each time, which is why it has grown from roughly 700 pages to a two-volume set. Li Lu cites the 1998 edition.
Connections
- Warren Buffett — the subject, in more detail than any other book on him attempts.
- Berkshire Hathaway — organised subsidiary by subsidiary; the value of the book is as a reference on the holdings.
- Value Investing — the case study the whole discipline keeps citing.
- Li Lu · Himalaya Capital — the curator and the bibliography; Li Lu manages money for Charlie Munger’s family.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.