Benjamin Graham and David Dodd wrote Security Analysis in 1934 to bring value investing to the mainstream.

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His father bought him a copy of Benjamin Graham and David Dodd's Security Analysis when he was in high school.

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Exploring other options, he realized that two investing experts he admired, Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, were teaching at Columbia's graduate business school.

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The value investing crowd has its origins in the 1934 text Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd and has been further developed by Warren Buffett, a past student of Graham who has also preached that a security eventually trades up to its intrinsic value.

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