8 Strategies for Women from Warren Buffett, the Feminist Capitalist

7) Study Buffett to invest wisely in your own portfolio. Men and women alike often ask me to recommend works by Buffett that will help them become better investors. My answer is always the same: read his annual letters to shareholders. The third edition of a compilation of those letters, The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, edited by Lawrence Cunningham comes out in March 2013. Buffett’s annual letters dating back to 1977 are available at www.BerkshireHathaway.com, a no-nonsense but wise and entertaining website where Buffett quotes everyone from Mae West to Groucho Marx to Woody Allen. “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist,” he says. “Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130 IQ … Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”