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Snce Warren Buffett recently acquired the Omaha-World News for the portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) and mutli-billionaire Carlos Slim increased his holdings of The New York Times Corporation (NYSE: NYT), small cap income investors should look at the stock of a. H. Belo Corporation (NYSE: AHC).a.H. Belo Corporation has a high dividend income for its shareholders of 5.21%.  The average dividend yield for a stock on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is under 2%.  Neither The New York Times Corporation (NYT) nor Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) pays a dividend.Many features of the balance sheet of a.H. Belo Corporation are as impressive as its high dividend yield.  The price-to-sales ratio is 0.21.  The price-to-book ratio is 0.54.  The gross magin is over 85%.  there is no debt.  by contrast, The New York Times Corporation (NYT) has a great deal of debt.a.H. Belo Corporation operates four newspapers: The Dallas Morning News, The Providence Journal, The Press Enterprise and The Denton Record Chronicle.  Like so many others in the newspaper business, The great Recession and the rise of the Internet have not been salutary for the share price of AHC or NYT.  for 2011, it is off more than 40%.but there are bullish signs.  over the past month, the stock is up more than 8%.  Insiders are buying a.H. Belo Corporation on the open market.  Uber investor Peter Lynch stated that there are many reasons for insiders to sell a stock (buy home, pay tuition, etc…).  but there is only one reason for an insider to buy: they believe the price will rise.Institutions are also bullish on a.H. Belo: the ownership level is over 70%.  both institutional and insider ownership at a.H. Belo Corporation is rising, which is a very positive sign.

<a href="http://www.smallcapnetwork.com/Warren-Buffett-likes-Newspapers-and-AH-Bello-has-No-Debt-Strong-Balance-Sheet-NYT-BRK-A-AHC/s/via/3420/article/view/p/mid/1/id/499/tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://www.smallcapnetwork.com/Warren-Buffett-likes-Newspapers-and-AH-Bello-has-No-Debt-Strong-Balance-Sheet-NYT-BRK-A-AHC/s/via/3420/article/view/p/mid/1/id/499/Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:06:51 GMT”>Warren Buffett likes Newspapers and AH Bello has No Debt, Strong Balance Sheet (NYT, BRK-A, AHC)

Some guides ive found so far are:
-The Warren Buffett way, second Edition
-The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing.
-pick stocks like warren buffet

please comment on any of these on whether or not they are worth a look.

I am a great admirer if Mr. Buffett. He would tell you to read "The Intelligent Investor". in addition to that, I suggest you read his writings of which some can be found at Berkshire Hathaway's website.

Start by reading his letters to shareholders- http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters…

If you pick stocks that he buys, you will probably do ok, but you will not match his growth because they are only a small part of his investing genius.

I would recommend "a Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Malkiel.

It is a classic and it is very readable and accessible. It will give you a good understanding of the many potential pitfalls in investments.

I am glad to see your trying to read up on the subject. It is serious business and you want to be extremely careful. Watch out for the charlatans.

What guide would you recommend for a starting investor?

Learn to Earn: a Beginner’s Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business

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Warren Buffett is a role model for most of the investors or beginners of investments. Most of the people try to find his investment strategies or tips to be success. But most of the beginners want to get immediate capital gains on their investment.

This is totally different strategy of Warren Buffett.

What I learn from Warren Buffett.Invest for Long term

Warren Buffett is always prefers to invest and hold for long term than the short term profits. Specially when his investments are reaching a higher gains in short terms even, he hold those stocks rather than to exit those and enjoy profits.

He believe the market is the friend of him, as he often says if your treat your friend nicely he will treat you nicely.

Don’t worry about short term Fluctuations

Don’t worry about the short term market fluctuations, every business have an up and down with seasons, so don’t go with the seasonal fluctuations and confused with your investments. better wait for long time, and see fluctuations and take decisions on it.

Buy good business not stock

Warren Buffett prefers to buy business rather than stock. he mainly focuses on the business management and companies’ financial health. Before he invests, he mostly consider about the business rather than the stock fluctuations.

He practices to buy the stock at the lower or reasonable price.

Buy the business the industry you can understand

This is Warren Buffett common understanding, such to invest the known business and the known business growth for long term. By knowing the company background and financial futures only help the investors to make sure the investment to be valid.

Warren Buffett ignore to buy Technology Company because, he couldn’t understand the long term business perspective of technology.

Better not to be an active trader

Warren Buffett always prefers to not to be an active trader, the active trader is only focuses on the short term investment rather than the long term capital gains.

And active trading is a costly approach and high brokerage payments. Rather than be more active trader and spend lots of money on it, better to be inactive trader and focus long term.

 Don’t over diversify

Warren Buffett advises to have small number of diversification in investment. better to have a range between 5 to10.

Better the short list of diversification is good to be having focus on it. By evaluating the correct business and invest of long term, needs not to be disturbing the focus.

Market is your friend

Warren Buffett often says market is your friend, so better to deal with the friend nicely and not disturbed too much. while we understand the market and focus long term, the friend with you for long term and make your portfolio to grow.

The learning from the Warren Buffett investment strategy « Synergyy.com

Northeastern Students4Giving (NS4G), a student-led initiative that immerses its members in the operation of a working philanthropic organization, has received a $10,000 grant from the Sunshine Lady Foundation’s Learning by Giving program.

The Sunshine Lady Foundation—founded by Doris Buffett, the sister of investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett—promotes philanthropy at the undergraduate level with the hope of inspiring students to become leaders in their communities.

Northeastern is one of 21 colleges and universities across the country that received a grant from the Learning by Giving program.

Students will use the award to make grants to nonprofit organizations in the Boston neighborhoods of Mission Hill, the Fenway, Roxbury and the South end. last year, NS4G awarded grants to Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries and Victory Programs, Inc., two groups in Roxbury that support families particularly at risk because of financial instability.

“This grant speaks to how hard students have worked to build a credible and meaningful organization,” said Rebecca Riccio, the NS4G advisor and a lecturer in Northeastern’s human services program. Riccio praised the University for its emphasis on community service and for giving students experiential learning opportunities that shape their analytical, organizational and leadership skills.

Many of the club’s members are enrolled in service-learning courses, Human Services Professions and Strategic Philanthropy and Nonprofit Management, that give them an understanding of community needs and grant management, but NS4G allows them to take their coursework further, said Riccio.

“Students care about the program not only because it relates to their courses,” she said, “but because they can see that they’re making a difference in the community.”

This distinctive experiential approach to learning attracted the Sunshine Lady Foundation, said Louise Sawyer, a consultant to the foundation’s giving program.

“Northeastern’s philanthropy program embodies Mrs. Buffett’s philosophy,” she said, adding, “Northeastern excels at both the ‘learning’ and the ‘giving’ sides of the equation.”

The grant gives members of the student group flexibility to spend more time assessing community needs and less time raising money for its philanthropy, said NS4G student leader Sarah Longstreet, a third-year communications and journalism double-major.

She stressed the importance of staying in touch with grant recipients through potential volunteer opportunities.

“We don’t just want to give money to these organizations and not know where it’s going and how much of a difference it’s making,” said Longstreet. “It’s about learning about what’s working and what isn’t working, and we won’t know unless we keep these relationships going.”

Students win Buffett foundation grant

Most billionaires dont have diplomas, Richard Branson cant even use a laptop. but others like Bill Gates might not have diplomas but he's definately book-smart, so is Warren Buffett.

Many people on the other hand have diplomas but are stuck in a boring and non-paying job.
Others have nothing and are multi-millionaires.

So which is best? Street-Smarts or Book-Smarts?

Open up the topic if you feel necessary!

I have no idea. I think that you have to have a little of both combined. you got to have a little bit of this and a little bit of that. you might need a lil street smarts bacause it help you sell the product and help you be more reasonable. It will be affordable for everyone and be sold everywhere. you need some book smart cause you can invent new and inproved things, which you can make alot of money off of., but you will need to know how and where to sell it. you would need both to be successful for a long time.

I think it takes both. Book smarts can teach you theory, but it's street smarts that helps with practical application. on the other hand, street smarts can take a long time to acquire. So book learning helps you pick up the experiences that other people have had to learn before you.

I'd go with both.

Poor equals dumb or dumb equals poor. Any kind of smarts should help you to avoid poverty (not get rich) getting rich requires a lot of things like being in the right place at the right time or being born to the right parents. Luck plays a role and where you are born etc plays a role. Immigrants are a good example, those who come to the US with some skills/some smarts often own property and business's in a short period of time passing up native born people who are 2 and 3 generations of poverty. course if you have the misfortune to be born in 3rd world country you probably cannot avoid poverty.

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and also followed by some book knowledge to get yourself polished to some extent and also to have the understand of the relevant terms.
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I would say a combonation of both, but don't overdo it on either

Which will make you rich? Street-smarts or book-smarts?

I am undecided into which business book(s) to buy. There are currently three autobiographies coming out soon:

Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur by Richard Branson

First Billion is the Hardest: how Believing It's Still Early in the Game can Lead to Life's Greatest Comebacks by T. Boone Pickens

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

Which of the first two autobiographies and Warren's by a ghostwriter should I buy?

Anyone of you have a recommendation for me, or are all three upcoming books worthy of my money?

Ok people here's the deal…?

Do you think gold and silver is a great long term investment. I agree with Buffett and Rogers that that nation has done little about debt.others feel a bailout of dollars could happen in the next few years.

Gold is a good investment. i am not sure about silver, although it is considered a semi=precious metal. the value of gold to silver is astoundingly dissimilar.

Warren Buffett and Jim rogers believe the dollar is long term decline because of debt.Will this help silver?

Author Alice Schroeder mentioned instead of a story that aptly describes the nature of personality Warren Buffet, when a friend of Warren Buffet was in the room of Mrs. Graham and was shocked to say the buffet a Picasso in the bathroom. Buffet told her he had seen there was shampoo in the room. Other stories deal with the power players such as Bill Gates and Akio Morita, in fact, Bill Gates still considered a soulmate of Warren Buffet.

Right book at the right time

The book The Snowball: Warren Buffett could not and the Business of Life arrived in the publication of the industry at a better time. His prediction that the derivatives were weapons of mass destruction was the big Bang and the most accurate prediction (prophecy, we must say) the global economic collapse. He was already on the dangers of government intervention and rescue of distressed banks by financial institutions.

Not a perfect book

The book is not without problems. The first point is that an authorized biography (you can not expect anything sensational) and the second is the length of the book – it’s just too long (but so is the life of Warren Buffet and his illustrious career). Despite these negative, is take the book and you will be forced to set aside some time for the book.The author of the book is a financial analyst Alice Schroeder, a self, so they know what they’re talking, as she writes the book.

The book The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life focuses on internal business processes going on in the brains of Warren Buffet. The basic principle is followed by Warren Buffet, the inner game of his scorecard, rather than to go to the gallery. Other Wall Street tycoons are violated when something went wrong for them, Warren Buffet is different and not fall prey to the trappings of wealth, even if he did all the money in the world. Even if he bought a private jet, he called the indefensible, which aptly describes the feeling that he is doing if he could go to buy. He is naive and proud (and intentionally) so. He eats Cherry Coke, hamburgers and fries. to invest his money rules are very simple, it avoids debt, and will remain on the market long-term investments.

Why only one Warren Buffett?

You may ask if this stuff is so simple, why is there only one Warren Buffet. The answer is – become Warren Buffet, you’re fiercely independent in spirit, and not be able to keep that mood all the time. He does not participate in the dot com boom because he does not understand how these companies have their business. Now we all know the hand that he was right.

Anyone can Stick to Basics

Surely someone could do that (at the basic stick), so why is there only one Warren Buffett? The answer is that the independence of a firm that other investors’ denies. It’s not that easy for economists to convince all the time. A group of economists came up with the efficient market hypothesis and they said, in theory, would Warren Buffet do not just exist. Their central belief was that individual investors can not consistently beat the market. The theory was modified when Buffet noted his eight other colleagues were doing equally well, as they were by the same teacher.

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Where can I learn all the smallest nuances of how warren buffett picks stocks,?
and all the technicalities of analysing and filtering through balance sheets for relevant information? Actually, I have read many books on Buffett, but he hasn't set out the exact tools and techniques that he uses for value investing, in detail. Where can I learn these tools and techniques in detail? I am willing to go anywhere to learn these techniques. please suggest.

You cannot.

Warren Buffett exact methodology is his trade secret and it will likely die with him. if you read what he actually says about the subject, rather than reading what other people write (who are looking to sell books, magazines & websites…not investing advice), you will notice that he says as much over and over and over again.

(So does his partner, Charlie Munger)

I suggest you read – the Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. W Buffett calls it – 'by far the best book on investing ever written'.

Where can I learn all the smallest nuances of how warren buffett picks stocks,?