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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 worlds 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 writers questions, talking, giving complete access to his wife, children, friends, and business associatesopening his files, recalling his childhood. It was an act of courage, asThe Snowballmakes 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, Buffetts legacy will not be his ranking on the scorecard of wealth; it will be his principles and ideas that have enriched peoples lives. This book tells you why Warren Buffett is the most fascinating American success story of our time.
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Praise for THE SNOWBALL
Even people who dont care a whit about business will be intrigued by this portrait. Schroeder, a former insurance-industry analyst, spent years interviewing Buffett, and the result is a side of the Oracle of Omaha that has rarely been seen.
Time
Alice Schroeders accumulation of detail, her vivid, artless descriptions of people and places, and the resulting narrative fluidity make this a compelling book. It has the bouncing vitality of an early Sinclair Lewis novel.
The Times Literary Supplement
The Snowball is likely to remain the most authoritative portrait of one of the most important American investors of our time.
Los Angeles Times
In this startlingly frank account of Buffetts life, Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanleyand hand picked by Buffett to be his biographerstrips away the mystery that has long cloaked the worlds richest man to reveal a life and fortune erected around lucid and inspired business vision and unimaginable personal complexity.
Publishers Weekly
An instructive chronicle of financial success at a moment when financial failure is on everyones mind There are lessons to be learned. Most tellingly: The next time Warren Buffett warns of a crisis, wed all better listen.
The Wall Street Journal
[I]f the replication of any great achievement first requires knowledge of how it was done, then The Snowball, the most detailed glimpse inside Warren Buffett and his world that we likely will ever get, should become a Bible for capitalists.
The Washington Post
A penetrating and personal look at the Oracle of Omaha [gets] deeply inside the head of the man who achieved such amazing long-term investment returns that some academics believe them to be a fluke.
BusinessWeek
[Schroeder] has sought to describe Buffetts psychological landscape as clearly as his financial one. For the reader, the results are pretty terrific. In describing how Buffetts mind works, and why it is so well suited to his chosen career, Schroeder is particularly good. Schroeders brave book offers a close-up of [Buffetts] cellulite, but more fairly, in the context of a genuinely delightful character. [H]istorys most legendary investor was not a cartoon but a real live human being. And still, somehow, deeply admirable.
M ICHAEL L EWIS , The New Republic
An unvarnished and well-paced biography that is essential for all public and academic business collections.
Library Journal
The mandatory book to read in these treacherous times of financial crisis.
Forbes
Buffett has been ahead of the curve for most of the past fifty years, making him one of the worlds richest people. Alice Schroeders The Snowball provides some clues about how hes done it.
Financial Times
[Ms. Schroeders] real contribution is her own investment expertise which enables her to make the convoluted financing schemes over the last fifty years understandable to lay readers and truly instructive to the business information junkie.
The Washington Times
CELEBRATED AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2008
BY MANY PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING
Time magazine Top 5 Non-Fiction Books of 2008
People magazine Top 10 Books of 2008
BusinessWeek Best Business Books of 2008
USA Today Best Business Books of 2008
The New York Times Janet Maslins 10 Favorite Books of 2008
Publishers Weekly Staff Picks of 2008
Barnes and Noble Best Life Stories of 2008
Amazon.com Editors Best of 2008
2009 Bantam Books Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright 2008, 2009 by Alice Schroeder
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House
Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
B ANTAM B OOKS and the rooster colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Originally published in hardcover in the United States in slightly different form by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2008.
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Chart on by Daniel R. Lynch
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Schroeder, Alice.
The snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life / Alice Schroeder.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-553-90549-6
1. Buffett, Warren. 2. Capitalists and financiersUnited States
Biography. 3. InvestmentsUnited States. I. Title.
HG172.B84S37 2008
332.6092dc22
[B] 2008017338
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To David
I t is the winter of Warrens ninth year. Outside in the yard, he and his little sister, Bertie, are playing in the snow.
Warren is catching snowflakes. One at a time at first. Then he is scooping them up by handfuls. He starts to pack them into a ball. As the snowball grows bigger, he places it on the ground. Slowly it begins to roll. He gives it a push, and it picks up more snow. He pushes the snowball across the lawn, piling snow on snow. Soon he reaches the edge of the yard. After a moment of hesitation, he heads off, rolling the snowball through the neighborhood.
And from there, Warren continues onward, casting his eye on a whole world full of snow.
W arren Buffett rocks back in his chair, long legs crossed at the knee behind his father Howards plain wooden desk. His expensive Zegna suit jacket bunches around his shoulders like an untailored version bought off the rack. The jacket stays on all day, every day, no matter how casually the other fifteen employees at Berkshire Hathaway headquarters are dressed. His predictable white shirt sits low on the neck, its undersize collar bulging away from his tie, looking left over from his days as a young businessman, as if he had forgotten to check his neck size for the last forty years.
His hands lace behind his head through strands of whitening hair. One particularly large and messy finger-combed chunk takes off over his skull like a ski jump, lofting upward at the knoll of his right ear. His shaggy right eyebrow wanders toward it above the tortoiseshell glasses. At various times this eyebrow gives him a skeptical, knowing, or beguiling look. Right now he wears a subtle smile, which lends the wayward eyebrow a captivating air. Nonetheless, his pale-blue eyes are focused and intent.
He sits surrounded by icons and mementos of fifty years. In the hallways outside his office, Nebraska Cornhuskers football photographs, his paycheck from an appearance on a soap opera, the offer letter (never accepted) to buy a hedge fund called Long-Term Capital Management, and Coca-Cola memorabilia everywhere. On the coffee table inside the office, a classic Coca-Cola bottle. A baseball glove encased in Lucite. Over the sofa, a certificate that he completed Dale Carnegies public-speaking course in January 1952. The Wells Fargo stagecoach, westbound atop a bookcase. A Pulitzer Prize, won in 1973 by the
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