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Bill Ackman

Founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management

11 Recommended books from Bill Ackman

  • Beating the Street

    by Peter Lynch March 10, 1993 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    1,311 ratings

    Legendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutu...

  • Confidence Game

    by Christine S. Richard March 29, 2011 History

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    4.4 stars

    122 ratings

    An expose on the delusion, greed, and arrogance that led to America's credit crisis

    The collapse of America's credit markets...

  • Fooling Some of the People All of the Time

    by David Einhorn May 2, 2008 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    296 ratings

    A revealing look at Wall Street, the financial media, and financial regulators by David Einhorn, the President of Greenlight Ca...

  • Margin of Safety

    by Seth A. Klarman October 1, 2021 Business & Money

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    4.2 stars

    54 ratings

    Investors are all too often lured by the prospect of instant millions and fall prey to the many fads of Wall Street. The myriad...

  • One Up On Wall Street

    by Peter Lynch April 3, 2000 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.6 stars

    4,577 ratings

    More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual-fund manager Peter Lync...

  • Quality of Earnings

    by Thornton L. O'glove October 1, 1998 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    135 ratings

    An indispensable guide to determining how much money a company is really making and for buying and selling stocks without makin...

  • Security Analysis

    by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd September 25, 2008 Business & Money

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    4.6 stars

    979 ratings

    "A road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years."
    --From the Foreword by Warren E. Buffett
    First publis...

  • The Essays of Warren Buffett

    by Lawrence A. Cunningham and Warren Buffett October 14, 2019 Business & Money

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    4.7 stars

    803 ratings

    The fifth edition of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America continues a 25-year tradition of collating W...

  • The Intelligent Investor

    by Benjamin Graham February 21, 2006 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    26,839 ratings

    This classic text is annotated to update Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions...
    The greatest investment adv...

  • The Warren Buffett Way

    by Robert G. Hagstrom September 30, 2013 Business & Money

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    4.7 stars

    1,084 ratings

    Warren Buffett is the most famous investor of all time and one of today’s most admired business leaders. He became a billionair...

  • You Can Be a Stock Market Genius

    by Joel Greenblatt February 25, 1999 Business & Money

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    4.4 stars

    719 ratings

    A comprehensive and practical guide to the stock market from a successful fund manager—filled with case studies, important back...

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