- Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, loves to read.
- When he began his investing career, he would read 600 to 1,000 pages a day.
- According to Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholder letters and over two decades of interviews, these are the books that have guided Buffett’s financial wisdom.
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When Warren Buffett started his investing career, he would read 600, 750, or 1,000 pages of a book a day.
Even now, he says he still spends about 80% of his day reading.
“Look, my job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action,” he once said in an interview.
“We don’t read other people’s opinions,” he said. “We want to get the facts, and then think.”
To help you get into the mind of the billionaire investor, we’ve rounded up 20 of his book recommendations over 20 years of interviews and shareholder letters.
Drake Baer, Sherin Shibu, and Ivan De Luce contributed reporting on a previous version of this article.
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