The Deals of Warren Buffett: Volume 1, The first $100m

Very good read on the earliest deals of Buffett. The commentary helps in explaining the circumstances around each of them, even the unsuccessful ones. Glad I came across this book.

Good

This book is easy to read and simply explains some of Buffett’s principles. It also has changed my opinion of what it means to be an investor and provides a basic understanding of where to start when thinking about investments.

Arnold goes through Buffett's early deals and discusses what lessons investors can take away from them. It was a perspective that caused me to be more thoughtful about my own practice and was well worth the time reading it.

This is a derivative work with nothing new, and no original thoughts. Most of the book is just rehashing what you could have learned for free by reading Buffett's annual letters to shareholders. In fact large portions of the book are simply quoted directly from the annual letters. Those parts that aren't from the annual letters will already be familiar to any Buffett follower that has read any other book on Buffett. If you've never read anything about Buffett and don't want to wade through the annual letters, than this is the book for you. However, if you looking for any actual meaningful analysis of Buffett's deals, that is completely absent from this book.

Great book! Love the stories!

We can learn a lot from the book .

A disappointment. I read this book in an afternoon and learned nothing. Each deal is covered in a few tiny pages with large print and the only detailed case study is of Buffett's investment in the Washinton Post and relationship with Katherine Graham which is already covered in the book The Outsiders (which I highly recommend). The book does not describe why deals made sense from a financial perspective and covers surface-level qualitative analysis that can be gleaned from public sources easily.

If you are interested in the business analysis of the investments made by Warren Buffet in his career, the Deals of Warren Buffet volumes are the books for you. Professor Arnold presents each investment as a case study evaluation, where the analysis is enriched with Warren Buffet’s extracts from his BH annual letters to shareholders.

good book