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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$62 billion, Buffett leads an intriguingly frugal life taking home a salary of only GBP50,000 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-139780747591917
eBay Product ID (ePID)95190601
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
AuthorAlice Schroeder
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicFinance, Business
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Dimensions
Item Height234mm
Item Width153mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorAlice Schroeder
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom