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Philip Fisher gilt als einer der Pioniere der modernen Investmenttheorie und zählt zu den einflussreichsten Investoren aller Zeiten.

Seine Investmentphilosophien, die er vor fast 40 vorgestellt hat, werden nicht nur von modernen Finanzexperten und Investoren - inklusive Warren Buffett - studiert und angewendet, sondern gelten für viele als das Evangelium schlechthin.

"Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings" ist die aktualisierte Broschurausgabe der 1958 erschienenen Originalausgabe.

Diese Neuauflage stellt Fishers Ideen einer neuen Generation von Investoren vor.

Sie enthält alle Investmentweisheiten der Originalausgabe sowie ein erweitertes Vorwort und eine Einleitung von Philip Fishers Sohn Ken - selbst ein angesehener Investment-Guru. Ken Fisher beschreibt hier, wie dieses Buch sein Privat- und Berufsleben beeinflusst hat und geht ausführlich auf die Investmentleidenschaft seines Vaters ein.

"Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings " - eine unverzichtbare Lektüre für Finanzinteressierte, Anleger und Finanzexperten gleichermaßen.

Die Neuauflage erscheint in neuem Design als Band der Reihe 'Wiley's Investment Classics Series'.
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"...written by American Investment genius.... We are delighted to have the opportunity to reproduce an extract from this classic, recently reissued..." (Financial Director, November 2003)

"...these updated classics are packed with investment wisdom..." (What Investment, November 2003)

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"I am an eager reader of whatever Phil has to say, and I recommend him to you."
--Warren Buffett

"You will find lots of jewels in these pages that may do as much for you as they have for me."
-- from the Introduction by Kenneth L. Fisher Forbes columnist

Widely respected and admired, Philip Fisher is among the most influential investors of all time. His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by today's finance professionals, but are also regarded by many as gospel. He recorded these philosophies in Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, a book considered invaluable reading when it was first published in 1958, and a must-read today.

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"I sought out Phil Fisher after reading his Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits...When I met him, I was impressed by the man as by his ideas. A thorough understanding of the business, obtained by using Phil's techniques...enables one to make intelligent investment commitments."
-- Warren Buffett

"Little known to the public, rarely interviewed and accepting few clients, Philip Fisher is nevertheless read and studied by most thoughtful investment professionals . . . everyone will profit from pondering--as Warren Buffett has done--the investment principles Fisher espouses."
 -- James W. Michaels Editor, Forbes

"My own copy [of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits] has underlinings and marginal thoughts throughout."
 --John Train author of Dance of the Money Bees

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 2nd ed. edition (August 21, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0471445509
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Zhanmei Yang
5.0 out of 5 stars An Integrated Investor and Honest Writer (also about the incorrect straight forward understanding of Scuttlebutt)
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2015
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From all Phil Fisher's books we can see he is a great investor and an integrated writer, who tells what he can about his investment philosophy. As his own words: frankness and bluntness.

Some readers are bothered by the too long preface and introduction by his son Ken Fisher. It's not bad if you are interested in Phil Fisher's own life and personal characteristics. However Ken Fisher is quite different from his father's honesty. Ken Fisher looks like a salesman who focuses on selling products of his own investment company rather than an investor. Ken Fisher writes one book in one or two years in repeating the same useless things.

Back to the book, the content is merit, which I don't want to repeat here. But some other reviewers say it's not practical for average investors to do 'scuttlebutt' with CEOs of the companies. It's true but the idea should get update in your heart. Remember this book was published in 1958 for the first time, by then Fisher can only use phones and visit the companies. But now we have internet and tons of information of which we should make good use. Scuttlebutt doesn't necessariely mean talking to CEOs and even it is the case you should very easily can see many things about the CEOs in the internet. Today it should be easier for us to do Scuttlebutt as closed as professionals can do.

And this book should be read with other books on corporation valuation like Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis. It's a 5-star book doesn't mean you can only use this book to get rich. In Fisher's point of view, this should be mastered for sure.

I would give myself a chance, if I cannot make real money by Fisher and Graham's book I would switch to index fund and invest my time on other things. Honestly I don't believe there are other books that could really make you rich if this book cannot.
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Richard of Connecticut
5.0 out of 5 stars You can ignore this book, but only at your PERIL!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2007
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Having been associated with Wall Street for 35 years, I was lucky enough to have been in the same room with Philip Fisher on more than one occasion. He was a completely self-contained man, extremely comfortable in his own skin. He knew who he was, what he was, and what he could be. He possessed zero airs about him. These traits seem to run freely in many MASTER investors, including Warren Buffett.

Many have mentioned that Buffett considers himself to be 85% Benjamin Graham, and 15% Philip Fisher. This needs to be updated. If you spoke with Buffett today, he would tell you that those ratios are distorted, and the reason is Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's investing partner at Berkshire Hathaway.

Charlie Munger is cut from the same cloth as Philip Fisher. They are growth players, and willing to pay up for a stock. For decades Buffett could NEVER PAY UP for a stock. He wanted them dirt cheap, so cheap in fact that some big plays got away from him forever. I don't know how many years ago, Buffett mentioned in a meeting I attended that he once owned a considerable amount of Disney. It would be a controlling amount in today's market; it got away from him, and tens of billions of dollars in that play alone.

In the old days when Buffett was strictly Graham and Dodd, he could not buy a GROWTH stock. He still cringes at the thought. Munger however taught Buffett to pay up. An example was Flight Safety International for which Buffett paid a previously unheard price-earning ratio. There are people around Buffett who know him well who will tell you that Munger is the superior investor. What you need to know is that sometimes stocks are DIRT CHEAP because they are DIRT, to use a Munger line.

Philip Fisher like Munger is a MASTER INVESTOR worthy of spending whatever time you can spare studying. If you want to walk in the footsteps of a MASTER, you must study the MASTER, and Fisher has a tremendous amount to offer.

I have managed billions of dollars in my lifetime. I am telling you this because you need to know that the SKUTTLEBUTT method that Fisher is famous for is something that anyone can used, starting today. Most of Wall Street research or any research that I have seen over the decades is not worth the paper it is printed on. On more than one occasion I have asked if the paper is soft enough to use for toilet paper.

With the scuttlebutt method, you talk to everyone but the company you are studying. Please allow me to illustrate. If you are thinking of investing in a car company, you start visiting car dealers. You learn the lingo, you read trade periodicals, maybe even a few car magazines, but be careful. Magazines and newspapers are completely jaded in their reporting by how much advertising dollars they receive from certain companies. You didn't know that because no one will ever dare print it.

If a newspaper wants to bury an important story on a company that gives them tremendous advertising dollars, they will run the unfavorable story, but it will be in the Saturday morning edition, which is the least read edition of the week. You need to know these things. I used Scuttlebutt back in the 80's, to accumulate a massive position in Chrysler when it was near bankruptcy. The stock went from $6 to $200 after splits. It isn't hard. You don't need to be a big market player, anybody really can do it.

You do need an inquisitive mind, and I believe an innovative one as well. Fisher was a guy who thought outside the box, and that's why he was immensely rich, as is his son Ken. Philip Fisher is a guy that made a fortune in FMC Corporation, owned it for 30 or more years. He was a ground floor player in Texas Instruments, owned it and made thousands of percent on the stock. He was every bit Buffett's equal, and to Fisher's credit, he gave us the greatest gift of all. He wrote a book, and was open with his readers about how to attain great wealth in the market.

He takes the "Efficient Market Hypothesis" (EMT), and blows it out of the water. His returns and Buffett's are so many standard deviations away from the mean, that EMT can't survive an investigation based on their results.

He gives you a 15-point criteria list to identify the types of companies that meet his screening. He also gives you five don'ts, and then five more to protect you as an investor. What Fisher is really doing is giving you a TEMPLATE to used as an investor. This is what you need. This is no different than going into the Marine Corps, and spending 12 weeks in basic training. Once you're done, you have certain smart behaviors drilled into your psyche so deep that in combat, and investing is combat, you can fall back on these techniques to survive. They become automatic. No matter what investment turns up, you can put it through the filters that have stood the test of time.

In closing, I would like to say one more thing about the Scuttlebutt technique. Recently, I had to make a decision to invest a considerable amount of money in the auto sector. One of the people I consulted with, is a legend in his 90's, who is the greatest mutual fund investor of the 20th century, probably worth over a billion dollars. He says to me in passing, do you know whom Toyota, the greatest car company in the world fears? The answer is the South Korean car companies. That my friends is worth a fortune, and is a 20 year stock play that Philip Fisher would have envied.

Richard Stoyeck
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Ramanpreet Kaur
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative
Reviewed in Canada on April 29, 2023
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This book tells you what you already know but don't believe it bcz you feel is too realistic.
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Pramod
5.0 out of 5 stars 15 qualities in the company must be prevailed before investing
Reviewed in India on March 31, 2024
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The writer of the book has beautifully explained all aspects of the best companies for investing pointof view. All chapters are significans for deep knowledge.
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Testleser
5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr gute Einblicke
Reviewed in Germany on February 18, 2024
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Sehr spannende Einblicke in die Gedanken von Phil. Fisher!
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Caio Pereira
5.0 out of 5 stars Obra atemporal!
Reviewed in Brazil on April 7, 2021
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"Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits" de Philip A. Fisher é uma obra atemporal. Fisher foi outro grande nome que influenciou Warren Buffett em suas estratégias de investimento. A pegada qualitativa vem do Fisher.

Diferentemente de outros autores e livros de investimento, que focam em indicadores, fórmulas, múltiplos, etc, este livro mostra a importância de prestar atenção ao negócio em si, seu corpo de executivos, seus investimentos em novos produtos e negócios, bem como a forma como trata seus colaboradores.

Fisher coloca um grande peso na inovação. Para ele, empresas capazes de crescer constantemente possuem uma gestão ávida por melhoria contínua, que sabe utilizar os lucros para reinvestir em novos produtos, novos mercados, sempre com os olhos atentos aos concorrentes e novos entrantes. Para o autor, empresas assim são poucas. Mas quando identificadas, podem trazer retornos nunca imaginados para aqueles que detém suas ações.

O mais legal é o quão atual é este livro. Sua primeira edição foi laçada no final dos anos 50! E já nessa época Philip avaliava a importância de um bom time, uma boa orientação e o foco em tecnologia e inovação.

Investidor contrário por natureza, Philip A. Fisher também nos conta a importância de ter controle emocional e não se deixar levar pelos ânimos do mercado financeiro. Para ele, as grandes oportunidades na maioria das vezes estão fora dos holofotes dos analistas financeiros. Por isso, é preciso sempre estudar e tomar as próprias decisões, não se deixando levar por opiniões contrárias.

Um livro muito bom! Repleto de insights para investidores e para profissionais diversos! Também traz outros escritos feitos pelo autor! Show!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2023
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good book and easy to understand
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