The Dao of Value Investing: A book of quotations for investors

Have you ever needed a fast and ready fact, an inspirational quotation or a pithy and informative remark relating to investments or to do with investing advice, but don’t always quite know exactly where to look or how far to go to find it? Well, look no further, as within the pages of this quotation book you have found a source of investment knowledge very much like it, or possibly just as good. Designed to cater for the interests of financial scrap-bookers, investment trivia buffs, economical word lovers, quotational bookworms, novice investors, ever-hopeful veteran investors, sage old investors or just plain old investors with chips on their shoulders, this book represents a fascinatingly broad spectrum of quotations relating to the subject of investing. Consequently, it has a decided emphasis on the seeking out and recording of "good" or "wholesome" (if not always "better") best practice advice on investing in stocks and shares. This, either for fun or profit, or probably both if money is to be made there as well, from taking the advice of many a cautious wisdom-monger, savvy financial commentator, canny stockbroker or sage old investing wizard of the investment world.

This unique "quotational storehouse" of many an investing "pearl of wisdom" results in many unexpected and rare examples of wit and wisdom coming to the fore which are ideal for investment regimes. The quotations themselves are used under “fair use” conditions of copyright law, or, because of their age, are undoubtedly now in the public domain. They have been ordered in various sections that, ideally, show off their usefulness most effectively. They include a number of selections of quotations and canny investing precepts of Warren Buffett, ordered by topicality and relevance, together with a shorter collection of quotations by Charlie Munger, Benjamin Graham and Benjamin Franklin.

In addition to this veritable "goldmine of investing knowledge", there is a longer collection of erudite wisdom from many other original minds, both ancient and modern, taken from literary and academic sources as well as investing, comprised of many quotational gems of brevity, originality and wit with direct relevance to the investing world. While, as a foil and in addition to the main gist or contents of the book (perhaps added almost as an attempt to answer a perceived need to find more humour in the act of investing), there is also a brief section on topical investment wit and humour from many a humour writer’s pregnant pen.

Finally, at the end of the book, more as a humorous addenda or quip-laced foil to this work, a concise effort has been made by the author to examine and subsequently satirize the curious subject of investment advice itself (from the viewpoint of a committed would-be humorist) by including a humorous collection of semi-serious "investing precepts". Mainly included here as an afterthought (or perhaps on an egotistical whim), this brief humoristic jaunt into investment whimsy is, quite possibly, a "must read" for all those would-be investing tycoons who might also like to mix a little light-hearted humour with their investment advice. Assuming, that is, with such a serious subject as investing can at times be, they have any real interest in doing so, even to those with a highly developed sense of humour, as many a sage old investor seems to consider having one a "must have" attribute for all those seriously pursuing investing regimes.