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The Snowball
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life | Alice Schroeder
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.
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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I have a little free library table set up by my apartment door. And I just noticed someone dropped off the Warren Buffett Snowball book along with a "How to make a living day trading" guide.
Must assume this is Gamestop fallout. ?

LiteraryinLawrence That‘s an awesome setup! Do your neighbors use it? 3y
ChaoticMissAdventures @LiteraryinLititz oh yes! My neighborhood is a big reading neighborhood. There are 6 traditional little free libraries in front of houses within walking distance from my building. 3y
marleed So cool! 3y
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KVanRead Lol! But love your setup. That‘s a fantastic idea. 3y
Librariana I love that you have "The Library Book" out there! ? 3y
ChaoticMissAdventures If nothing else I love to watch what books appear and disappear. 3y
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Panpan

I wanted@ti like this. I could not make it through it.

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"The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. [... ]Now, my dad he was a hundred percent Inner Scorecard guy.He was really a maverick. But he wasn't a maverick for the sake of being a maverick. He just didn't care what other people thought. My dad taught me how life should be lived. I've never seen anybody quite like him."
First #biography and #firstpost on Litsy ?

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saguarosally
Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope | Mark Kelly, Gabrielle Giffords
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About half of today's Goodwill book haul. Where do I even begin?

Suzze I have never been to a Goodwill. Searched and there is one 4 miles from me. Field trip! (edited) 7y
saguarosally @Suzze Enjoy! Be careful though. This stack has just tripled. 7y
Suzze @saguarosally 🤣🤣🤣 7y
Born.A.Reader Love goodwill for books! 7y
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