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BySerenity:Benjamin Graham was an economist and professional investor who taught Warren Buffett, Irving Kahn, Walter J. Schloss and other famous investors at Columbia Business School.Buffett, who credits Graham with grounding him with a sound intellectual investment framework, describes Graham as the second most influential person in his life after his own father. In fact, Graham had such an overwhelming influence on his students that two of them, Buffett and Kahn, named their sons after him.

By Brad Thomas:Ben Graham, author of Security Analysis, wrote that An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis promises safety of principal and adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.

By Brad Thomas:I have long been a fan of Benjamin Graham, who is considered the first proponent of value investing, an investment approach he began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928. One of Graham's students, Warren Buffett, credits Graham as grounding him with a sound intellectual investment framework, described him as the second most influential person in his life after his own father.

By Brad Thomas:Recently I read an excellent Wall Street Journal article by Jack Hough called The Case for 'Wide Moat' Stocks and in the articl

Sebastien Buttet submits: "The Intelligent Investor," one of my favorite books on investing written by Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, and first published in 1949, is a classic that must be read by anyone serious about making money in the market (a less well-known book, "The Art of Speculation", by Philip L. Carret and first published in 1930 is right up there with The Intelligent Investor in my opinion, but a thorough analysis of the books' relative merits is for another day).

Known to those on Wall St. as the father of value investing, Benjamin Graham's teachings were critical to the successes of many investors that are now household names— like Warren Buffett. "Ben was this incredible teacher, I mean he was a natural," said Buffet, in an interview with the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing.

Brad Thomas submits: When Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing philosophy, passed way in 1976, Warren Buffett wrote this about Graham’s teachings:

By Brad Thomas:Shortly after Ben Graham's death in 1976, Warren Buffett wrote a short remembrance on Graham in the Financial Analyst Journal, and in that excerpt Buffett recounted: Certainly I never met anyone with a mind of similar scope. Virtually total recall, unending fascination with new knowledge, and an ability to recast it in a form applicable to seemingly unrelated problems made exposure to his thinking in any field a delight.