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This 6 page paper discusses Buffet and his company, Berkshire Hathaway, a holding company in the financial service industry. The essay begins with a short description of Buffet's very early days and his growth to his current wealth of about $35 billion. Buffet grants very few interviews and he has not written articles about his exceptional investing methods information about his beliefs and practices are drawn from other sources. His general management style and basic traits are discussed. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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with $105,000 in assets (Simon, 2001). That was 1956, today, Buffet is worth $26 billion and is the 2nd richest man in the world, after Bill Gates (Simon, 2001). Buffets
goal in the beginning was to outperform the Dow by 10 percentage points annually (Simon, 2001). He more than doubled his goal; over the next 12 years, Buffet outperformed the
Dow by an average of 22 percentage points each year (Simon, 2001). In 1969, Buffet dissolved the investment partnership "because he felt the stock market had become overvalued" (Simon,
2001, p. 45). All assets were divided among the shareholders; his own share was $25 million (Simon, 2001). A true Horatio Alger story, from $100 in 1956 to $25
million in just over 12 years. Between 1970 and 2001, Buffets wealth soared to $25 billion (Simon, 2001). That net worth increased to $30.5 billion in 2003 (Kadlec, 2003). One
single "A" share of Buffets stock cost $61,700 (the price is higher today) (Kadlec, 2003) "B" shares, which come with limited voting rights cost $2,065 per share at that
time (Kadlec, 2003). In his 2003 Annual Letter, Buffet noted: "per-share book value has grown from $19 to $50,498, a rate of 22.2% compounded annually" (Buffet, 2004). Peter Lynch called
Buffet "the best investor in history" (Simon, 2001, p. 45). Given the mans extreme success one would think he would be boasting, writing articles, writing books, giving seminars, granting interviews
but that is not Buffets way. Buffet seldom grants any interview and he has not written a word about his approach and methods (Simon, 2001). What is known is that
during his college years, he read Benjamin Grahams book called "The Intelligent Investor" (Simon, 2001). Buffet was extremely impressed with Grahams thoughts and went to Columbia Universitys Graduate School of
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