Benjamin Graham wrote The Intelligent investor to bring principled thinking into the world of investing. In the Intelligent Investor, Graham sets the framework of thinking for smart investing. Some of Ashley's investing principles are modeled from Graham, but improved by Buffett, Munger, and other fundamental investors.

Chuck Akre  is an American investor and businessman. He is the founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Akre Capital Management, focusing on companies that earn high returns on capital invested (compounding machines). 

Ray Dalio is a broad and rational thinker. He is an American billionaire investor and hedge fund manager (Bridgewater Associates). Ray is a principled thinker and manager, and shares principles that he apples at Bridgewater to cultivate productivity and a culture of logic and reason. 

Benjamin Graham wrote The Intelligent investor to bring principled thinking into the world of investing. He based his principled off The Great Depression, and is the Grandfather of value investing; today, known as the only true kind of investing.

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Security Analysis is not written for the lay reader who is not familiar with financial terms and concepts.

This book is a compilation of Mungerisms with excellent explanations. 

Chuck Akre  is an American investor and businessman. He is the founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Akre Capital Management, focusing on companies that earn high returns on capital invested (compounding machines). 

Fisher was a successful investor who wrote a guide to investing, which was one of the early proponents of the growth investing strategy. 

Known for running the Magellan Fund at Fidelity, Peter Lynch is an American investor, mutual fund manager, and philanthropist. Lynch became well known after he averaged a 29.2% annual return, consistently more than 2x the S&P 500 stock market index, making it the best-performing mutual fund in the world.

Fisher was a successful investor who wrote a guide to investing, which was one of the early proponents of the growth investing strategy. 

Fisher was a successful investor who wrote a guide to investing, which was one of the early proponents of the growth investing strategy. 

Porter is an American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes. He is a Professor at Harvard Business School known for his lectures and research on competition, competitive strategy and sustainable moats. 

This is one of Ashley's favorite research papers, which covers the review in performance regarding the replication of Berkshire's portfolio with a period delay in stock purchase. This paper outlines the fundamental principle that imitation works well, and if it ain't broken, there is no need to fix it. 

This book discusses how to identify 100-baggers (companies that return 100x). It covers the underlying principles of 100-bagger companies, while also discusses the importance of price in relation to the value of these companies. 

Guy Spier is a Zurich-based investor that manages the Aquamarine Fund with $300 million in assets. He is well known for bidding $650,100 with Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett in 2008.

Porter is an American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes. He is a Professor at Harvard Business School known for his lectures and research on competition, competitive strategy and sustainable moats. 

In a straightforward and accessible style, Joel explores the basic principles of successful stock market investing and then reveals his time-tested formula that makes buying above average companies at below average prices automatic. Though the formula has been extensively tested and is a breakthrough in the academic and professional world, Greenblatt explains it using 6th grade math, plain language and humor. He shows how to use his method to beat both the market and professional managers by a wide margin. You’ll also learn why success eludes almost all individual and professional investors, and why the formula will continue to work even after everyone “knows” it.