Philip Arthur Fisher (September 8, 1907 – March 11, 2004 in San Francisco, California)[1] was a proponent of the growth investing strategy.

[2] Philip Fisher's career began in 1928 when he dropped out of the newly created Stanford Graduate School of Business (later he would return to be one of only three people ever to teach the investment course)[3] to work as a securities analyst with the Anglo-London Bank in San Francisco.

[4] He switched to a stock exchange firm for a short time before starting his own money management company, Fisher & Co., founded in 1931.

[9] At this point Fisher's popularity rose dramatically and propelled him to his now legendary status as a pioneer in the field of growth investing.

In the 2018 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting, Warren Buffett called Fisher's Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits a "very, very good book".