Name: The Snowball
Rating: 4.090909090909091 (22 reviews)
ISBN: 9780747591917

Alice Schroeder

The biography of the world's richest man and the only book on Warren Buffett that has his full cooperation.

Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

The Snowball

A portrait of the life and career of investment guru Warren Buffett sheds new light on the man, as well as on the work, ideas, business principles, strategies, and no-nonsense insights that have guided his phenomenally successful business endeavors.

Keven Wang

Safiya 

Was looking forward it... But this is unusually a boring read.... #Sorryntsorry
Although I have learnt a few things about his life in general I lost my enthusiasm as I was advancing in it ...

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 £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.

Luke Kanies

Deeply informative book about one of the 20th century's best investors.

For me, it made it super clear that I would never want to be the kind of investor he is. It was a very helpful investigation into classical investing in order to make money, which bores me to tears, and now that could not be more clear.

Given it's an authorized biography, it was interesting to come away with basically no respect for him personally. He doesn't seem like a bad person, but he also doesn't seem like a good person - like he was put here to make money, and if he makes enough of it, avoiding everything else in life doesn't really matter. The number of times he was just incredibly, willfully, unapologetically rude to someone was amazing.

Yes, I know that he's giving away most of his money, but that's strategic-good, not personal-good, like Bill Gates.

Howard Lo

Damn, who knew a biography about Warren Buffet would be this interesting? What an unexpectedly colorful life, with all the riches he justly deserves.

Josh Dzarir

A great and detailed book on the life of one of the greatest investors of our time. Everyone will often talk about what Buffett is investing in and how to copy his style of inestment. But what I truly value is the personal story which helped shape his life. His relationships with the people around him both good and bad. The people he mentored under and those he chose to be in his close circle of influence. His story is a great example how consistent effort over a long period of time builds tremondous results!

The Snowball Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

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