Born: 1930
Died: -
Industry: Investor

Estimated wealth: $34.2 billion

Brief Biography:

After learning at the knee of the Columbia Graduate School of Business professor Benjamin Graham, the “oracle of Omaha” scraped together a hundred thousand dollars to start an investment partnership when he was twenty-five; it had increased its clients’ money an average of 30 percent a year when it was dissolved in 1969. By then Buffett had bought the small, worn-down textile firm Berkshire Hathaway; as a holding company it acquired undervalued companies whose stock values grew, and it is today a multibillion-dollar powerhouse that owns stock in the Washington Post, Coca-Cola, American Express, and Capital Cities/ABC. Buffett retains a self-deprecating sense of humor and modesty: He does his own taxes, drives his own car, and says that Berkshire’s stock is overvalued. Biography from Forbes American Heritage Top 40.

Accomplishments:

Books by and/or about:

• Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor
• Thoughts of Chairman Buffett : Thirty Years of Unconventional Wisdom from the Sage of Omaha
• The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
• The Intelligent Investor : A Book of Practical Counsel
• Of Permanent Value The Story of Warren Buffett 1998/Edition

Websites:

• Reveiw of Warren Buffet Speaks