The Essentials Buffet outlines the core principles that you will want to incorporate into every stock decision you make :

* Invest in a business, not a stock - you'll look at a company's economics as if you were taking over as CEO tomorrow

* Demand a margin of safety for each purchase - how to keep risk at a minimum

* Manage a focus portfolio - a comprehensive portfolio strategy, used with spectacular results by Buffett, which focuses the investment process on a few outstanding companies

* And protect yourself from the speculative and emotional forces of the market - a lesson thousands of investors have now come to appreciate the hard way.

The Essential Buffett shows you how Buffett's framework can reliably guide your investments in today's economy.

Investors today are bombared with information. But understanding is still a scarce resource. To understand and practice the real rules of investing, you'll find no better touchstone than the essential tenets developed by Warren Buffett and laid out in this book.