The snowball : Warren Buffett and the business of life / Alice Schroeder.

By: Schroeder, AliceMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2009Edition: Updated and condensed edDescription: xi, 816 p., [16] p. of plates : ports. ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780747596493 (pbk.) :; 0747596492 (pbk.) :Other title: Warren Buffett and the business of life | Warren Buffett & the business of lifeSubject(s): Buffett, Warren | Buffett, Warren | Philanthropists | Capitalists and financiers | Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography | Investments -- United States | Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography | United StatesGenre/Form: Biography.DDC classification: 332.6092 LOC classification: HG172.B84 | S37 2009
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE The Bubble -- 1.The Less Flattering Version -- 2.Sun Valley -- 3.Creatures of Habit -- 4.Warren, What's Wrong? -- pt. TWO The Inner Scorecard -- 5.The Urge to Preach -- 6.The Bathtub Steeplechase -- 7.Armistice Day -- 8.A Thousand Ways -- 9.Inky Fingers -- 10.True Crime Stories -- 11.Pudgy She Was Not -- 12.Silent Sales -- 13.The Rules of the Racetrack -- 14.The Elephant -- 15.The Interview -- 16.Strike One -- 17.Mount Everest -- 18.Miss Nebraska -- 19.Stage Fright -- pt. THREE The Racetrack -- 20.Graham-Newman -- 21.The Side to Play -- 22.Hidden Splendor -- 23.The Omaha Club -- 24.The Locomotive -- 25.The Windmill War -- 26.Haystacks of Gold -- 27.Folly -- 28.Dry Tinder -- 29.What a Worsted Is -- 30.Jet Jack -- 31.The Scaffold Sways the Future -- 32.Easy, Safe, Profitable, and Pleasant -- 33.The Unwinding -- pt. FOUR Susie Sings -- 34.Candy Harry -- 35.The Sun -- 36.Two Drowned Rats -- 37.Newshound -- 38.Spaghetti Western --
Contents note continued: 39.The Giant -- 40.How Not to Run a Public Library -- 41.And Then What? -- 42.Blue Ribbon -- pt. FIVE The King of Wall Street -- 43.Pharaoh -- 44.Rose -- 45.Call the Tow Truck -- 46.Rubicon -- 47.White Nights -- 48.Thumb-Sucking, and Its Hollow-Cheeked Result -- 49.The Angry Gods -- 50.The Lottery -- 51.To Hell with the Bear -- 52.Chickenfeed -- pt. SIX Claim Checks -- 53.The Genie -- 54.Semicolon -- 55.The Last Kay Party -- 56.By the Rich, for the Rich -- 57.Oracle -- 58.Buffetted -- 59.Winter -- 60.Frozen Coke -- 61.The Seventh Fire -- 62.Claim Checks -- 63.The Crisis -- 64.The Snowball.
Review: "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.""
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Previous ed.: 2008.

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE The Bubble -- 1.The Less Flattering Version -- 2.Sun Valley -- 3.Creatures of Habit -- 4.Warren, What's Wrong? -- pt. TWO The Inner Scorecard -- 5.The Urge to Preach -- 6.The Bathtub Steeplechase -- 7.Armistice Day -- 8.A Thousand Ways -- 9.Inky Fingers -- 10.True Crime Stories -- 11.Pudgy She Was Not -- 12.Silent Sales -- 13.The Rules of the Racetrack -- 14.The Elephant -- 15.The Interview -- 16.Strike One -- 17.Mount Everest -- 18.Miss Nebraska -- 19.Stage Fright -- pt. THREE The Racetrack -- 20.Graham-Newman -- 21.The Side to Play -- 22.Hidden Splendor -- 23.The Omaha Club -- 24.The Locomotive -- 25.The Windmill War -- 26.Haystacks of Gold -- 27.Folly -- 28.Dry Tinder -- 29.What a Worsted Is -- 30.Jet Jack -- 31.The Scaffold Sways the Future -- 32.Easy, Safe, Profitable, and Pleasant -- 33.The Unwinding -- pt. FOUR Susie Sings -- 34.Candy Harry -- 35.The Sun -- 36.Two Drowned Rats -- 37.Newshound -- 38.Spaghetti Western --

Contents note continued: 39.The Giant -- 40.How Not to Run a Public Library -- 41.And Then What? -- 42.Blue Ribbon -- pt. FIVE The King of Wall Street -- 43.Pharaoh -- 44.Rose -- 45.Call the Tow Truck -- 46.Rubicon -- 47.White Nights -- 48.Thumb-Sucking, and Its Hollow-Cheeked Result -- 49.The Angry Gods -- 50.The Lottery -- 51.To Hell with the Bear -- 52.Chickenfeed -- pt. SIX Claim Checks -- 53.The Genie -- 54.Semicolon -- 55.The Last Kay Party -- 56.By the Rich, for the Rich -- 57.Oracle -- 58.Buffetted -- 59.Winter -- 60.Frozen Coke -- 61.The Seventh Fire -- 62.Claim Checks -- 63.The Crisis -- 64.The Snowball.

"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.""

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