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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Bantam Catalog: Book Release date: 2008-09-29 Media: Hardcover Format: Roughcut Number of pages: 976 Ean: 9780553805093 Book Isbn: 0553805096  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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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 those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.” Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life story. His reality is private, especially by celebrity standards. Indeed, while the homespun persona that the public sees is true 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 finish 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 subject of his investing style, no one had moved 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 decision 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 complete access to his wife, children, friends, and business associates—opening his files, recalling his childhood. It was an act of courage, as The Snowball 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 ranking on the scorecard of wealth; it will be his principles and ideas that have enriched people’s lives. This book tells you why Warren Buffett is the most fascinating American success story of our time. |
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 Written on November 24, 2008 Summary: Wise guy For real. Buffett's fascinating life all wrapped up in one big book. Recommended buy if you're interested in how business works. Written on November 24, 2008 Summary: AHA! I did't expect more then those original pages book cover and the printing are good, and besides, it's really a good deal, because you don't expect another repeating 32 pages following page 814. Man, can i call it a bonus  Written on November 23, 2008 Summary: Way too volumunious This book is way too volumunious and in small print on top of it. Who has time to read a book that size? Written on November 23, 2008 Summary: Nothing New The Buffett book was a disappointment. Very little new knowledge. Most of the book was either recapping things in earlier books or a play by play of daily life. Not worth the size or cost.  Written on November 23, 2008 Summary: Detailed - although excessive The Snowball is chronologically arranged and meticulously detailed. This makes the timeline of Warren Buffett's life sequential and easy to understand how he has evolved into the world's best investor. The author has gone through what I think is a habit most writers have - of not throwing away anything from their years of researching a topic. Each and every detail of Buffett and his multiple friends and family members, makes for 300 pages more of what should have been a 500 page book. Some of this detail is helpful to understand the main subject's life and work, but the author seems to have included every last Post-it of information she has researched while working on this book. However, as Buffett himself has spent 'countless' hours speaking and exchanging notes with the author, the result is a all-you-wanted-to-know-about Buffett - the human being behind the aura. One other downside of this book is the adulatory manner of describing Buffett. "Sage", "Oracle", and many other words used regularly thoughout the book makes one think the author was worshipping the subject more than doing a critical analysis of his work and a non-judgemental analysis of his life. Even though Buffett had told the author to always use the less-flattering version of his life's experiences - this advice has been promptly discarded by the author. 300 pages lesser, less adulation and less of irrelevant details would have raised my ranking to 4 stars. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2008-09-29 | 2008-09-08 | 2008-11-18 | 2008-09-02 | 2008-04-29 | 2008-05-05 |
| Media | Hardcover | Hardcover | Hardcover | Hardcover | Paperback | Hardcover |
| Format | Roughcut | - | - | - | - | - |
| Number of pages | 976 | 448 | 320 | 272 | 512 | 208 |
| Ean | 9780553805093 | 9780374166854 | 9780316017923 | 9780307395771 | 9780812979275 | 9781586486839 |
| Book Isbn | 0553805096 | 0374166854 | 0316017922 | 0307395774 | 0812979273 | 1586486837 |
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