Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs BusinessBook of the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball is the first and will bethe only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett,written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining aunique blend of "The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life storyand philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyonewishing to discover and replicate the secrets of his business andlife success. Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatestinvestor. Even as a child he was fascinated by the concept of riskand probability, setting up his first business at the age of six.In 1964 he bought struggling Massachusetts textile firm BerkshireHathaway and grew it to be the 12th largest corporation in the USpurely through the exercise of sound investing principles - a featnever equalled in the annals of business. Despite an estimated networth of around US$62 billion, Buffett leads an intriguingly frugallife taking home a salary of only GBP50,000 a year. His onlyindulgence is a private jet, an extravagance he wryly acknowledgesby calling it "The Indefensible".In 2006, he made the largestcharitable donation on record, with most of it going to the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation. The Snowball provides acomprehensive, richly detailed insight one of the world's mostextraordinary and much loved public figures.
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Alice Schroeder began her career as a certified publicaccountant, working for Ernst & Young before being appointed asa managing director at Morgan Stanley in the equities division. Shewas the number one-ranked Institutional Investor All-AmericaResearch Analyst in 2001 and 2002, and a member of the All-AmericaResearch team for seven years. Schroeder first met Warren Buffettin 1998. By 2001, Buffett began to suggest that Alice shift fromthe business of following stocks in order to write full-time.
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