Find a clean, legal PDF of The Interpretation of Financial Statements by Benjamin Graham. Read Chapter 4 ("The Balance Sheet—Liabilities") twice. Then, pull up the balance sheet of a company you own. Ask yourself: Would Ben Graham buy this at today’s price?

You could only see this if you knew how to interpret the statements. The PDF is the decoder ring.

, provide a philosophy for value investing, this manual serves as the technical foundation for those who want to "buy stocks like they select groceries, not perfume". Core Philosophy: Reality Over Hype