The Snowball：Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

作者: Alice Schroeder

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 2008-06

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780747591917

定价: 176.00

装帧: 精装

开本: 16开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 960页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>历史

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　　Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs BusinessBook of the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball is the first and will bethe only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett,written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining aunique blend of "The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life storyand philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyonewishing to discover and replicate the secrets of his business andlife success. Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatestinvestor. Even as a child he was fascinated by the concept of riskand probability, setting up his first business at the age of six.In 1964 he bought struggling Massachusetts textile firm BerkshireHathaway and grew it to be the 12th largest corporation in the USpurely through the exercise of sound investing principles - a featnever equalled in the annals of business. Despite an estimated networth of around US$62 billion, Buffett leads an intriguingly frugallife taking home a salary of only GBP50,000 a year. His onlyindulgence is a private jet, an extravagance he wryly acknowledgesby calling it "The Indefensible".In 2006, he made the largestcharitable donation on record, with most of it going to the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation. The Snowball provides acomprehensive, richly detailed insight one of the world's mostextraordinary and much loved public figures. 　　Alice Schroeder began her career as a certified publicaccountant, working for Ernst & Young before being appointed asa managing director at Morgan Stanley in the equities division. Shewas the number one-ranked Institutional Investor All-AmericaResearch Analyst in 2001 and 2002, and a member of the All-AmericaResearch team for seven years. Schroeder first met Warren Buffettin 1998. By 2001, Buffett began to suggest that Alice shift fromthe business of following stocks in order to write full-time. PART ONE/TheBubble

1: The Less Flattering Version

2: Sun Valley

3: Creatures of Habit

4: Warren, What's Wrong?

PART 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

PART THREE / The Racetrack

20: Graham-Newman

21: The Side to Play

22: Hidden Splendor

　……
内容简介:
　　Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs BusinessBook of the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball is the first and will bethe only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett,written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining aunique blend of "The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life storyand philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyonewishing to discover and replicate the secrets of his business andlife success. Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatestinvestor. Even as a child he was fascinated by the concept of riskand probability, setting up his first business at the age of six.In 1964 he bought struggling Massachusetts textile firm BerkshireHathaway and grew it to be the 12th largest corporation in the USpurely through the exercise of sound investing principles - a featnever equalled in the annals of business. Despite an estimated networth of around US$62 billion, Buffett leads an intriguingly frugallife taking home a salary of only GBP50,000 a year. His onlyindulgence is a private jet, an extravagance he wryly acknowledgesby calling it "The Indefensible".In 2006, he made the largestcharitable donation on record, with most of it going to the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation. The Snowball provides acomprehensive, richly detailed insight one of the world's mostextraordinary and much loved public figures.
作者简介:
　　Alice Schroeder began her career as a certified publicaccountant, working for Ernst & Young before being appointed asa managing director at Morgan Stanley in the equities division. Shewas the number one-ranked Institutional Investor All-AmericaResearch Analyst in 2001 and 2002, and a member of the All-AmericaResearch team for seven years. Schroeder first met Warren Buffettin 1998. By 2001, Buffett began to suggest that Alice shift fromthe business of following stocks in order to write full-time.
目录:
PART ONE/TheBubble

1: The Less Flattering Version

2: Sun Valley

3: Creatures of Habit

4: Warren, What's Wrong?

PART 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

PART THREE / The Racetrack

20: Graham-Newman

21: The Side to Play

22: Hidden Splendor

　……