Here is a detailed account of the professional and personal life of the man who built the Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway investment company from scratch into a multi-billion dollar empire. It is a portrait of a man with a talent for making money the old-fashioned way--avoid risky short-term strategies in favor of investing in companies with permanent value.
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Ranked eighth on Forbes magazine's list of the richest Americans, Warren Buffett (b. 1930) began investing in the stock market when he was only 11 years old, we learn from this unabashedly admiring biography. Kilpatrick, a business reporter for the Birmingham (Ala.) Post-Herald , portrays Buffett as so astute and highly principled a leader as to be "the one man" capable of saving giant brokerage firm Salomon Brothers when, after a potentially fatal scandal in 1991, Buffett was named Salomon's temporary CEO. Meanwhile Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's modestly run investment firm, headquartered in his native Omaha, Neb., has outperformed the Dow averages consistently since its inception in 1965, when a share traded at $12-$13 (by the end of 1991, the share price was $9050, the highest on the New York Stock Exchange). Kilpatrick's story focuses entirely on finances. Although Buffett did not authorize this work, its hyperbolic and frankly partisan tone give it the feel of a press release.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I only only finished 77 pages of this book. It was by far the best book about Warren Buffett. I had read "The Warren Buffett's Way" and "Buffettology". Bill, a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder
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