Investors wiki
The seven investors invest-like grades every stock against
Long-form wiki entries on Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Philip Fisher, Peter Lynch, Joel Greenblatt, Charlie Munger, and Terry Smith. Each page covers the biography, the documented investment philosophy, the famous picks, the books, widely cited quotes, the misconceptions, and a live link to the framework scored daily against 21,000+ stocks across 68 countries, roughly half listed outside the US.
Why seven, not one
Every long-running value-investing record has eventually decayed once the rule that produced it became widely copied. Graham's net-net cohort got arbitraged away by the late 1970s. The Magic Formula's edge has thinned since the original 1988 to 2004 backtest. invest-like runs all seven philosophies in parallel and reports per-framework grades and the cross-framework consensus side by side. The bet is that disagreement across philosophies still picks up structural quality even when any one rule decays. Each leaf wiki below explains the philosophy on its own terms; the per-framework cohort page at /fit/{slug}/ shows the live list of stocks passing it today.
The seven
Click any investor for the full wiki entry. Each leaf carries a biography, the documented investment philosophy in five to seven core principles, famous picks, books, widely cited quotes, common misconceptions, FAQ, and a live deep-link into invest-like's scoring of their framework against 21,000+ stocks across 68 countries.
Warren Buffett
Born 1930, American
Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway's chairman and CEO since 1965 and the most widely cited value investor of the modern era. Buffett's framework combines Graham's margin of safety with Fisher's quality lens, then holds positions for decades. Berkshire's annual shareholder letters from 1977 to 2024 are the foundational primary source for his philosophy and underpin invest-like's Buffett Brain feature.
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Benjamin Graham
Born 1894, British-American
Columbia Business School professor, Graham-Newman Corp.
The father of modern security analysis. Graham taught at Columbia Business School, ran Graham-Newman from 1936 to 1956, and wrote the two books that defined the value-investing discipline: Security Analysis (1934) and The Intelligent Investor (1949). Buffett was his most famous student and Graham-Newman employee.
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Philip Fisher
Born 1907, American
Founder, Fisher & Co.
The growth-quality counterweight to Graham. Fisher founded Fisher & Co. in 1931 and ran it for nearly seventy years, championing what he called scuttlebutt research: methodical, qualitative conversations with customers, ex-employees, competitors, and suppliers. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958) is his canonical text, and Buffett credits Fisher with 15 percent of his philosophy.
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Peter Lynch
Born 1944, American
Former manager, Fidelity Magellan Fund
Manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990, where he compounded assets at roughly 29 percent annually and grew the fund from 18 million to 14 billion dollars. Lynch popularised growth-at-a-reasonable-price (GARP), the PEG ratio, and the doctrine that a retail investor's everyday consumer knowledge is a real edge over Wall Street.
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Joel Greenblatt
Born 1957, American
Founder, Gotham Capital, adjunct professor at Columbia
Founder of Gotham Capital, which compounded at roughly 40 percent annually from 1985 to 1994. Greenblatt published the Magic Formula in The Little Book That Beats the Market (2005), a two-factor rank combining return on capital with earnings yield. Adjunct professor at Columbia Business School since 1996.
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Charlie Munger
Born 1924, American
Vice Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman from 1978 until his death in 2023, and Buffett's intellectual partner since 1959. Munger persuaded Buffett to move beyond Graham's cigar-butt deep-value style toward paying fair prices for great businesses. Famous for his latticework of mental models drawn from psychology, biology, physics, and history.
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Terry Smith
Born 1953, British
Founder and CEO, Fundsmith
Founder and CEO of Fundsmith LLP, launched 2010. Smith's Fundsmith Equity Fund grew to over 25 billion pounds in assets under management by focusing on a concentrated portfolio of high-return-on-capital global businesses. Author of Accounting for Growth (1992) and Investing for Growth (2020). The modern compounder framework in three rules: buy good companies, do not overpay, do nothing.
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How invest-like uses them
Every public stock the platform indexes is scored against all seven frameworks daily, then graded A+ through D per framework with reasoning written out per pillar. The leaf wiki pages explain the philosophy; the scoring surfaces below show the live result.
Methodology
Pillar weights, deal-breakers, and consensus rules for every framework.
Strategies
Marketing showcase that lets a visitor try filtering by any framework in one click.
Working papers
Two peer-reviewable working papers with permanent DOIs on Zenodo and abstract pages on SSRN.
Track record
Live 30-stock model portfolio and the rolling-window cohort medians per framework.
Editorial note
Encyclopaedic only. Each entry compiles publicly documented material.
invest-like has no commercial relationship with any of the seven investors or their estates. Quotes, picks, and book references are drawn from primary sources (shareholder letters, published books, public interviews) and widely cited secondary literature. Errors and omissions email hello@invest-like.com.
invest-like is an editorial and educational tool. Nothing on this page or the linked investor wikis constitutes investment advice or a personalised recommendation. All framework scores, model-portfolio numbers, and AI verdicts are framework-grounded interpretations of public data, not tailored guidance. Past performance does not predict future results.