Book description
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of
the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball is the first and will be the only
biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett, written with his
full cooperation and collaboration. Combining a unique blend of
"The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life story and
philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyone wishing to
discover and replicate the secrets of his business and life success.
Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest investor. Even as a
child he was fascinated by the concept of risk and probability, setting
up his first business at the age of six. In 1964 he bought struggling
Massachusetts textile firm Berkshire Hathaway and grew it to be the 12th
largest corporation in the US purely through the exercise of sound
investing principles a feat never equalled in the annals of business.
Despite an estimated net worth of around US billion, Buffett leads an
intriguingly frugal life taking home a salary of only 50,000 a year. His
only indulgence is a private jet, an extravagance he wryly acknowledges
by calling it "The Indefensible". In 2006, he made the largest
charitable donation on record, with most of it going to the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. The Snowball provides a comprehensive, richly
detailed insight one of the world's most extraordinary and much loved
public figures. Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs
Business Book of the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball is the first and will
be the only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett,
written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining a unique
blend of "The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life story and
philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyone wishing to
discover and replicate the secrets of his business and life success.
Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest investor. Even as a
child he was fascinated by the concept of risk and probability, setting
up his first business at the age of six. In 1964 he bought struggling
Massachusetts textile firm Berkshire Hathaway and grew it to be the 12th
largest corporation in the US purely through the exercise of sound
investing principles a feat never equalled in the annals of business.
Despite an estimated net worth of around US billion, Buffett leads an
intriguingly frugal life taking home a salary of only 50,000 a year. His
only indulgence is a private jet, an extravagance he wryly acknowledges
by calling it "The Indefensible". In 2006, he made the largest
charitable donation on record, with most of it going to the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. The Snowball provides a comprehensive, richly
detailed insight one of the world's most extraordinary and much loved
public figures.
