Investor studies
Not idols - case studies in reading. Each investor is studied for the mental models they actually used: what was visible in the record, how to read it, and - mandatory in every study - where the read fails and what does not transfer. A profile without failures is hagiography.
Compounders & Quality
- Warren Buffett16 studiesBuy a durable business at a sensible price, let it compound, and treat the market as a servant, not a guide.
- Charlie Munger12 studiesAssemble a latticework of mental models and invert every problem; avoid stupidity rather than seek brilliance.
- Peter Lynch10 studiesClassify the business first, know its story, and let ten-baggers run - but know where "buy what you know" misleads.
- Philip Fisher8 studiesUse scuttlebutt to judge quality growth, buy the exceptional, and almost never sell.
- Nick Sleep & Qais Zakaria5 studiesBack businesses that share their scale gains with customers, and hold for the destination, not the quarter.
- Terry Smith5 studiesBuy good companies, don't overpay, do nothing - and let high return on capital compound.
- Rakesh JhunjhunwalaIndia6 studiesRide India's long compounders with conviction - and respect the leverage and risk half most fans skip.
- Radhakishan DamaniIndia5 studiesEveryday low cost, owned stores, patience - read retail through its unit economics.
- Pulak PrasadIndia6 studiesAvoid big risks, buy quality at a fair price, and don't be lazy or crazy.
- Chandrakant SampatIndia4 studiesEarly Indian quality investing: low-debt consumer franchises, held simply.
- Nemish ShahIndia4 studiesConcentration, patience and capital discipline, away from the noise.
- Akash BhanshaliIndia4 studiesQuality small and mid-cap franchises, judged on management and long compounding.
Value & Special Situations
- Benjamin Graham8 studiesInsist on a margin of safety and treat price as separate from value.
- Joel Greenblatt6 studiesSpecial situations and spinoffs hide value the crowd ignores - and the magic formula has limits.
- Seth Klarman6 studiesMargin of safety as an absolute-return discipline; holding cash is a position.
- Mohnish Pabrai6 studiesClone the best, and hunt "heads I win, tails I don't lose much" asymmetry.
- Anil Kumar GoelIndia5 studiesRead commodity up-cycles and balance-sheet-led deep value in small and mid caps.
- Siddhartha BhaiyaIndia4 studiesDeep value and cyclical turnarounds - margin of safety in unloved sectors.
- Sankaran NarenIndia5 studiesContrarian value and asset allocation - buy discomfort, rotate on valuation.
- Rajeev ThakkarIndia5 studiesValue investing with global diversification from India, and behavioural discipline.
- Abhishek BasumallickIndia4 studiesThe multi-bagger micro-cap specialist: hunt under-covered names, size for liquidity risk.
- Jiten ParmarIndia4 studiesBalance-sheet-first deep value and cyclical turns - know when cheap is a trap.
Index & Passive
- John Bogle6 studiesOwn the whole market at the lowest possible cost and let it compound, untouched, for decades.
- William Bernstein6 studiesYour outcome is decided by asset allocation, market history, your own psychology and cost - not by picking the right stock.
- Charley Ellis6 studiesInvesting is a loser's game: you win not by brilliant picks but by not losing - cutting mistakes and owning the whole market cheaply.
Mathematicians & Quants
- Edward Thorp5 studiesFind an edge, size it by Kelly, and never risk ruin.
- John Kelly4 studiesBet a fraction of capital proportional to your edge; full Kelly is already too much.
- Benoit Mandelbrot5 studiesMarkets have fat tails; standard risk models understate the chance of ruin.
- Deepak ShenoyIndia5 studiesSystematic, data-first reading: separate the narrative from the numbers.
- Jim Simons4 studiesA cautionary tale: a secret maths-and-computers money machine that ordinary people cannot copy - admire it, never imitate it.
Thinkers & Behavioural
- Michael Mauboussin6 studiesJudge the process, not the outcome, and respect base rates and the paradox of skill.
- Nassim Taleb6 studiesSurvive first: ruin is not recoverable, and the tails run the show.
- Philip Tetlock5 studiesForecasting is a trainable skill; calibrate, update, and keep score.
- Daniel Kahneman6 studiesTwo systems of thought, and the biases that make us misread risk.
- Howard Marks6 studiesSecond-level thinking and knowing where you stand in the cycle.
- Prof. Sanjay BakshiIndia5 studiesMental models and moats, taught for Indian markets.
Macro & Traders
- George Soros5 studiesReflexivity: perception and price feed each other into booms and busts.
- Stanley Druckenmiller4 studiesIt is not whether you are right, it is how much you make when you are.
- Ray Dalio5 studiesBalance risk across environments; understand the debt cycle.
- Jesse Livermore4 studiesA cautionary study: what to learn, and what killed him - leverage without risk control.