3. Categories

      Functional Areas: Funding, Legal, Marketing, Recruiting
      Skills: Leadership, Productivity

  4. About Warren Buffett

    Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930, in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American investor, businessman and philanthropist.
    He is regarded as one of the world's greatest stock market investors, and is the largest shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
    With an estimated     net worth of around US$62 billion, he was ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world as of March 5, 2008.

    Often called the "Oracle of Omaha,"
    Buffett is noted for his adherence to the     value investing philosophy and for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth.
    His     2006 annual salary of about $100,000 is tiny by the standards of senior executive remuneration in other comparable companies,
    and when he spent $9.7 million of Berkshire's funds on a business jet in 1989, he jokingly named it "The Indefensible" because of his past criticisms of such purchases by other CEOs. He continues to live in the same house in the central Dundee neighborhood of Omaha that he bought in 1958 for $31,500, today valued at around $700,000.

    Buffett is also a noted philanthropist. In 2006, he announced a plan to give away his fortune to charity, with 83% of it going to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2007, Buffett was listed among Time's 100 Most Influential People in The World. He also serves as a member of the board of trustees at Grinnell College, where his advice on asset management has led to Grinnell College having the second largest endowment of any liberal arts college in the United States.

  1. Warren Buffett

    Comments Leave a Comment

    1-8 of 8

    1. Mentioned In 8 Articles

    2. 7 Reasons Start-ups Fail

      Explore inc.com (Apr 4 2012) Marketing , Recruiting

      ...isions, from the newsfeed to photo tagging, also came from gut decisions. Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Warren Buffett, Richard Branson. They all learned very early on to listen to their initial instinct. If your gut t... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Warren Buffett   Michael Dell   Mark Zuckerberg

    3. Avoid these three money mistakes

      Explore Breaking News Headlines (Nov 16 2011)

      Avoid these three money mistakes ...ng. It's a lot harder to embrace mistakes, talk about them openly, and make changes going forward. Warren Buffett is the world's most successful living investor and he seem to have no issues discussing his biggest... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Las Vegas   Warren Buffett   Mexico

    4. Stop Building Your Product And Learn Kopywriting Now – with Neville Medhora

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 19 2011)

      Stop Building Your Product And Learn Kopywriting Now – with Neville Medhora ...’ Life is that good. Or taking a trip. Neville: You know how you whenever you hear rich people like Warren Buffett or Bill Gates say, ‘Oh, it’s not about the money’? That’s because they have a lot of f***ing money,... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   India   Warren Buffett   Tim Ferriss

    5. Translate Your Startup Vision to Investor Values

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Jun 28 2011)

      Translate Your Startup Vision to Investor Values ...oulder most of the responsibility for any translation required. If you had one chance to present to Warren Buffett, how would you present your new technology to prevent your own mashup? Marty Zwilling Presentin... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Warren Buffett   Marty Zwilling   Facebook

    6. How I Turned My Company Around When The Dot Com Bubble Burst – with Eric Kuhn

      Explore mixergy.com (Mar 28 2011)

      How I Turned My Company Around When The Dot Com Bubble Burst – with Eric Kuhn ...iginal million dollars but I did read an old Washington Post article that said it was a relative of Warren Buffett. Eric: It’s a crazy story. My co-founder was an avid golf fan. We were driving to a meeting one day... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Nebraska   San Francisco   Warren Buffett

    7. How to Start a Startup

      Explore Paul Graham (May 21 2010)

      ... the name of each person with an MBA, you'll learn something important about business school. After Warren Buffett, you don't hit another MBA till number 22, Phil Knight, the CEO of Nike. There are only 5 MBAs in t... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Henry Ford   Jeff Bezos   Lycos

    8. Quote of the Week

      Explore The Entrepreneurial Mind (May 14 2010)

      ...re the steady currency that earn us the all-important rewards."  (Peter Buffett, son of billionaire Warren Buffett, from his book, Life is What You Make it: Finding... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Warren Buffett

    9. Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

      Explore ben's blog (Apr 28 2010)

      ...or instance, points out that Fortune’s editorial staff considered twelve other candidates including Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, and Martha Stewart before naming Steve Jobs the best CEO of the decade in November 20... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Oracle   Larry Ellison

    10. 1-8 of 8