I've built my strategy on indept analysis of the following three people, Warren Buffett, Sandy Weill and Jamie Dimon. It is amazingly clear after reading many books on these guys how close their respective strategies are to one another. I think one must see ones portfolio as a business, not as the shares one buys, and hold for long term which i see many people fail to do. By reading these 3 books one doesnt learn how to select shares, but the basic business idea behind the winning strategy can be tought to people reading inbetween the lines, then work on building models to value companies etc can be created to build a successful platform for long term portfolios... these books are - "The Snowball (Warren Buffett)", "The Read Deal (Sandy Weill)" and "Last Man Standing (Jamie Dimon)"... for the intelegent, this can create some ideas to building a fortress portfolio (note Jamie Dimon's Fortress Balance Sheet worked extremely well for JPMC)... any thoughts?