The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with persons closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and perfect biography of the man known everywhere as “The Prediction of Omaha.”
Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life tale. His reality is private, especially by celebrity standards. Indeed, while the homespun persona that the public sees is right as far as it goes, it goes only so far. Warren Buffett is an array of paradoxes. He set out to prove that nice guys can end first. Over the years he treated his investors as partners, acted as their steward, and championed honesty as an investor, CEO, board member, essayist, and speaker. At the same time he became the world’s richest man, all from the modest Omaha headquarters of his company Berkshire Hathaway. None of this fits the term “simple.”
When Alice Schroeder met Warren Buffett she was an insurance industry analyst and a gifted writer known for her keen perception and business acumen. Her writings on finance impressed him, and as she came to know him she realized that while much had been written on the theme of his investing style, no one had stirred beyond that to explore his larger philosophy, which is bound up in a complex personality and the details of his life. Out of this came his choice to cooperate with her on the book about himself that he would never write.
Never before has Buffett spent countless hours responding to a writer’s questions, talking, giving perfect access to his wife, children, friends, and business associates—opening his files, recalling his childhood. It was an act of courage, as The Grow quickly makes immensely clear. Being human, his own life, like most lives, has been a mix of strengths and frailties. Yet notable though his wealth may be, Buffett’s legacy will not be his status on the scorecard of wealth; it will be his principles and thoughts that have enriched people’s lives. This book tells you why Warren Buffett is the most fascinating American success tale of our time.
From the Hardcover edition.
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I bought this book as a Christmas present for my Son. I ordered it on 28th November but did not receive it until after Christmas so am very very very miserable.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This hagiograpgy shows the fallible, human side of Saint Warren, not in anything that is said in this overlong, unfocused and unedited ramble, but in the fact the Mr. Buffett, who allegedly attached fantastic vital to this effort, was unable to pick a name to write an appealing book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I got it!
You know how one of the opinion against the possibility of time travel goes “time travel is not possible, because if it was, we would encounter time travelers from the future and we don’t”? Well, Warren Buffett is a man who travelled from the future, only as a replacement for of Sports Almanach, he brought with him a book with historic share prices.
And, btw, this book is parallel to that biography movie that Marty sees in front of Biff’s tower in ruined 1985…
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book is way too volumunious and in tiny print on top of it. Who has time to read a book that size?
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Alice Schroeder is an accountant more than a writer but this book and its pattern flow very well. Buffett selected her more for her financial thinking than anything else I suspect. Schroeder tries to tell it like it is. I imagine Buffett felt the heat on reading some of it. Read the footnotes too.
It is the tale of a name who got in the groove of building money and stayed there 24/7. The pull of the tale is to see the interactions between Buffett and his relatives and additional people. It is a very candid book.
WEB is a real hero by the end of the book. Maybe he became one as he got older. So it seems. Alice is egging him on to go from hero to sainthood at the end of the book. But, books about people are like icebergs, you only see the small bit above the surface. Excellent job Alice.
Buy the book at a bargain fee.
I hear that when Charlie Munger wanted to read this book he tried to borrow it from the library. But, it was out on loan to Warren Buffett at the time.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5