Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction xxiii
Chapter One Buy Stocks like Steaks . . . On Sale 1
Chapter Two What’s It Worth? 10
Chapter Three Belts and Suspenders for Stocks 18
Chapter Four Buy Earnings on the Cheap 26
Chapter Five Buy a Buck for 66 Cents 35
Chapter Six Around the World with 80 Stocks 41
Chapter Seven You Don’t Need to Go Trekking with Dr. Livingston 49
Chapter Eight Watch the Guys in the Know 58
Chapter Nine Things That Go Bump in the Market 63
Chapter Ten Seek and You Shall Find 70
Chapter Eleven Sifting Out the Fool’s Gold 78
Chapter Twelve Give the Company a Physical 87
Chapter Thirteen Physical Exam, Part II 94
Chapter Fourteen Send Your Stocks to the Mayo Clinic 102
Chapter Fifteen We Are Not in Kansas Anymore! (When in Rome . . .) 114
Chapter Sixteen Trimming the Hedges 119
Chapter Seventeen It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint 123
Chapter Eighteen Buy and Hold? Really? 130
Chapter Nineteen When Only a Specialist Will Do 139
Chapter Twenty You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But . . . 145
Chapter Twenty-One Stick to Your Guns 156
Don’t Take My Word for It 165
Bibliography 177
CHRISTOPHER H. BROWNE is a Managing Director of Tweedy, Browne Company LLC and is a member of the firm's management committee. He is also President of the Tweedy, Browne Funds, a mutual fund group. Browne is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he serves as a Charter (Life) Trustee. At Penn, he established the Browne Center for International Politics, and the Browne Distinguished Professorships in the School of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Browne served on the faculty advisory committee of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government program in investment decisions and behavioral finance. He is a trustee of Guild Hall, a regional arts and education center in East Hampton, New York, and of the Long Island Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Mr. Browne is also a trustee of The Rockefeller University and a member of its executive and investment committees.
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