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	Warren Buffett
		Warren Edward Buffett was born in Omaha in 1930.
		Warren Buffett's father, Howard was a stockbroker and Republican congressman.
		Warren Buffett has said that only in the case of physical or mental incapacity would he consider retiring as chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire.
	www.biogs.com /famous/buffett.html (510 words)

	AskMen.com - Warren Buffett
		Warren Buffett always wanted to be rich and he knew what it took to make his dream come true.
		Warren Edward Buffett was born August 30th, 1930, to Howard and Leila Buffett, in Omaha, Nebraska.
		Warren's parents had met while working on the school paper at the University of Nebraska, but when Warren, the middle child of the Buffett's three, was born, Howard was a stockbroker turned US Congressman.
	www.askmen.com /men/business_politics/43_warren_buffett.html (647 words)

	The Warren Buffett You Don't Know
		Buffett hands over his passport and landing card to the inspector, who does not seem to realize that the professorial-looking 68-year-old standing before him is America's second-richest man. Or perhaps he just gets a kick out of trying to take the high and mighty down a peg.
		To hear Buffett sing his beautifully artless rendition of Ain't She Sweet to his own ukulele accompaniment is to wonder not only how such a man came to measure his net worth in billions but also whether he might not be a time-traveler from a more innocent age.
		Buffett has said that it is his wish that 99% of the money he has made eventually go to the Buffett Foundation, to be distributed to worthy causes under the direction of Allen Greenberg, 42, the ex-husband of his daughter Susan A. Buffett.
	www.businessweek.com /1999/99_27/b3636001.htm (5568 words)

	Shearwater Capital - Learning Center - Warren Buffett, Part 2
		Buffett decides to invest in a company that is too big to swallow whole.
		Buffett was instrumental in the selection of the past two CEOs at Coke.
		The point is, when Warren Buffett invests in a company, he assumes substantial control over how the firm is operated.
	www.shearwatercapital.com /learning/warrenbuffet_2.html (371 words)

	Warren Buffett
		Warren Buffett's father, Howard Buffett, was a stockbroker, a Republican, and a U.S. Congressman who consistently spoke and voted against what he called President Roosevelt's "big government" plans.
		Buffett and his wife Susan were married more than 50 years, but it was not a typical marriage.
		Buffett is believed to be the second or third wealthiest man in the world, and still lives in the house he bought for $31,000 in 1958.
	www.nndb.com /people/445/000022379 (792 words)

	Warren Buffett Biography
		Buffett was born to Leila and Howard Buffett and was the second of three children, he being the only boy.
		Buffett's late wife was set to inherit much of his fortune upon his death.
		Buffett is a generous philanthropist and was giving more than $USD12 million each year to the Buffett Foundation (no called the "Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation").
	www.woopidoo.com /biography/warren_buffett.htm (802 words)

	Warren Buffett
		Buffett became much more interested in the intangibles of companies such as their brand name and their leadership.
		Buffett was a champion of the "buy and hold" movement, preferring to keep stocks for the rest of his life as long as they performed.
		Any study of Warren Buffett promises to be a long one, but well worth the effort.
	stock-market.superiorinvestor.net /warren-buffett.html (428 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: Trade Like Warren Buffett (Wiley Trading)
		Although Buffett has gained recognition for his value investing approach to the markets, the fact is that nobody—over the past fifty years—has traded and invested with a more diverse group of strategies than Buffett.
		Trade Like Warren Buffett challenges the current coverage of this great investor by including details of all of Buffett's investing and trading methods, including mean reversion, commodities, bonds, arbitrage, market timing, funds, as well as Graham-Dodd.
		Buffett is a focus value investor, who is not beyond engaging in event driven plays such as risk arbitrage, which this book covers rather well.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=0471655848 (594 words)

	Why I Study Warren Buffett - Fat Pitch Financials
		Gerald Martin and John Puthenpurackal, in their recent paper “Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway“;, argue that the investment returns of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway go beyond pure luck or excessive risk taking.
		They conclude that it is very likely that “…Warren Buffett is an investor with superior stock-picking skills that allows him to identify undervalued securities and thus obtain risk-adjusted positive abnormal returns.” Warren Buffett’s stock investment performance goes beyond what can be explained under the efficient market theory.
		Returning to Buffett’s performance record, the average annualized return for the other 202 long-term stock investments made in Berkshire’s portfolio are an impressive 26.96% according to the paper.
	www.fatpitchfinancials.com /184/why-i-study-warren-buffett (1405 words)

	10 Secrets Hidden in Warren Buffett's Wallet
		Warren Buffett's 24-year-old wallet was recently purchased for $210,000 at a charity auction because it included a stock tip.
		But before Buffett sent his wallet to the winning bidder, he removed a significant and personal item that reveals 10 secrets to his extraordinary wealth-building success.
		At this time, Warren Buffett was in the process of liquidating his Buffett Partnership and focusing his time and energy on building the holding company that's known today as Berkshire Hathaway.
	www.nightingale.com /tAE_Article~A~SecretsHiddeninBuffettsWallet~i~279.asp (769 words)

	Warren Buffett to Give Bulk of Fortune to Gates Foundation :: PNNOnline ::
		Warren Buffett, the second wealthiest man in the country, will donate the bulk of his $44 billion fortune to the foundation of the wealthiest, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and four other philanthropies starting in July, the New York Times reports.
		Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., plans to contribute 85 percent — about $37.4 billion — of his Berkshire stock to charity, with approximately $31 billion directed to the Gates Foundation, effectively doubling the asset base of the largest foundation in the United States.
		The gift from Buffett, who will join the Gates Foundation as a trustee, will be made in annual increments and could be distributed in an as-yet-unspecified way if Buffett dies before the entire sum is paid.
	www.pnnonline.org /article.php?sid=6813&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (492 words)

	Warren Buffett & Charles Munger
		Warren Buffett seems to make the buy and hold illusion look smart, but let's take a look at why this strategy is dangerous to your portfolio.
		Below are excerpts from Warren Buffett and Charles Munger's remarks at their annual shareholder meeting for Berkshire Hathaway.
		Buffett I am appalled at your presumption to criticize a man that has become reputably the second richest man by employing his techniques.
	www.turtletrader.com /buffett.html (930 words)

	WEB:The Oracle of Omaha- Warren Buffett
		Warren Buffett last May played ukulele and sang “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Gal?)” at the opening of Jimmy Buffett’s Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant in Omaha, Neb., where Warren Buffett has lived most of his life.
		Jimmy Buffett says he chose Omaha as a location for his restaurant – one of 14 in the chain – because it is a midsize city, but also because of Uncle Warren.
		So far, Doris Buffett has traced her family’s roots to the late 17th century on Long Island, where a John Buffett was married in the town of Huntington, in 1696.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/21509/241-250 (3314 words)

	WEB:The Oracle of Omaha- Warren Buffett
		Warren Buffett, the second-richest American, lives in a $700,000, five-bedroom house on a maple-lined street in Omaha, Neb. Neighbor Mike McMullen says he sometimes sees Buffett, 74, warming up his Lincoln on winter mornings.
		When Salomon Brothers was embroiled in a bond-rigging scandal in 1991, Warren Buffett, its largest investor, took the helm as chairman and chief executive of the embattled company for an annual salary of $1.
		Buffett was unavailable for comment for this article, according to his assistant, Debbie Bosanek.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/21509/251-260 (3998 words)

	tsr.ch - actu - Warren Buffett, milliardaire philanthrope
		L'Américain Warren Buffett, deuxième fortune du monde, entend donner 37 milliards de dollars (46,1 milliards de francs) à des organisations caritatives dirigées par son ami Bill Gates et par des membres de sa propre famille.
		Warren Buffett a aussi alloué un million d'actions à une fondation qu'il a créée avec son épouse aujourd'hui disparue, Susan Thompson Buffett, et 350'000 titres à chacune des fondations créées par ses enfants Howard, Susan et Peter.
		Agé de 75 ans, Warren Buffett dirige depuis 1965 le groupe Berkshire Hathaway, qui était à l'époque une société textile en difficulté mais qu'il a transformée en une société d'investissements riche de 141,8 milliards de dollars.
	www.tsr.ch /tsr/index.html?siteSect=200003&sid=6847847 (511 words)

	The Intelligent Investor Club - Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham
		Warren Buffett Q and A Session With Darren Johnson
		For this first type of board situation, Warren Buffett believes the number of directors should be little (ten or less) and come mostly from the outside.
		Warren Buffett Q & A Session With Darren Johnson
	www.intelligentinvestorclub.com (1557 words)

	Warren Buffett Summary
		Warren Buffett (born 1930) is America's most brilliant investor, compiling a year-after-year record of phenomenal returns for the shareholders of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. For example, Nikki Ross, author of The Legends of Wall Street:...
		Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, businessman and philanthropist.
		Nicknamed the" Oracle of Omaha" or the" Sage of Omaha", Buffett has amassed an enormous fortune from astute investments, particularly through his compan...
	www.bookrags.com /Warren_Buffett (114 words)

	Warren Buffett and Sherlock Holmes
		To get started on understanding the investment methods of Warren Buffett I read everything that I could lay my hands on that was written by Warren Buffett or about him.
		The first problem was that, even though Buffett has written extensively on his general principles and methods, he has written almost nothing about the specific details.
		Warren Buffett, Chairman and C.E.O. of Berkshire Hathaway and the second richest man in the U.S.A. "It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts."
	www.sherlockinvesting.com (781 words)

	FT.com / Home UK / UK - Buffett deepens dollar worries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Warren Buffett has warned that the US trade deficit risks creating a “sharecropper’s society” as his letter to shareholders sounded an increasingly bearish tone about the value of the dollar.
		These currency profits were partly responsible for a sharper than expected rise in fourth quarter earnings from $2.39bn to $3.34bn, although Berkshire earnings are notoriously volatile due to the timing of investment gains.
		Mr Buffett stepped up his warning about the US trade deficit and the need to finance it with foreign investment, devoting more than two full pages of the annual report to the topic.
	news.ft.com /cms/s/14d1fb9c-8da0-11d9-a4d2-00000e2511c8.html (705 words)

	Information on Warren Buffett
		Warren Buffett is the most successful stock investor of all time, and the principal owner of arguably the most successful publicly traded company of all time, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
		Solely due to his stock picking abilities, Buffett is consistently one of the five richest men in America.
		Buffett did not achieve these amazing returns for his shareholders by using complicated investment strategies or by borrowing money to magnify investment returns.
	www.rogueinvestor.com /articles/Buffett.html (310 words)

	Buy Jimmy Buffett Tickets - Cheap Jimmy Buffett Concert Show Tickets At Onlineseats
		Believe it or not, Jimmy Buffett is a distant cousing of the 2nd world's richest man, Warren Buffett.
		Buffett soon had a strong and loyal group of fans who would flock to each and every concert as did Grateful Dead fans and now Phish fans.
		During the 1980s, Jimmy Buffett continued to record and perform, and today he endorses a myriad of products including, but not limited to, food and drink mixes, clothing, and books.
	www.onlineseats.com /jimmy-buffett-tickets (723 words)

	How Robert Began Studying Warren Buffett from How to Build Wealth Like Warren Buffett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Warren Buffett's uncompromising work ethic, combined with his shrewd investment strategies have made him one of the richest and most respected men the world over.
		You will be inspired and motivated as Robert recounts the story of how Warren Buffett single-handedly became a self-made billionaire solely by investing in stocks and businesses that he believed in.
		Who Warren Buffett's mentors are and how you can apply their lessons to your life.
	www.nightingale.com /pa~product~Wealth_Like_Warren_Buffett~audio~2833.asp (702 words)

	Personnage original, Warren Buffett vit tranquillement à Omaha, ville du Nébraska
		Buffett ne se soucie pas de l'évolution du marché au jour le jour, ni même sur l'année.
		D'autre part, Warren Buffett n'investit jamais dans des entreprises dont il ne comprend pas les produits ou le fonctionnement, qui sont en dehors de son "cercle de compétence" (N.B.: tout ce qui touche à l'informatique est en dehors du cercle de compétence de Warren Buffett !).
		Enfin Warren Buffett dit qu'il procède à une réduction du risque en concentrant l'essentiel de son portefeuille sur quelques valeurs seulement.
	www.orientationfinance.com /accueil/detail.asp?IdC=15&IdD=1458 (219 words)

	Chuong Investment Management
		he world's second-richest man, Warren Buffett, became one of the world's biggest philanthropists Sunday with the announcement that he would bequeath the bulk of his roughly $44 billion fortune (figures U.S.) to the foundation established by billionaire Bill Gates and his wife.
		Buffett said the problem lies in the way executive compensation is decided.
		A revised FAQ based on Warren Buffett's letters to shareholders was created by Steve a.k.a.
	www.ticonline.com (3998 words)

	Fair Investment Finance Bookshop
		Warren Buffett Wealth follows the world's greatest investor from the beginning of his career, as he takes a 100-dollar investment and turns it into one of the most successful multibillion-dollar companies in the world.
		By carefully detailing how Buffett began his career and discussing what he learned from Benjamin Graham, this book reveals the true secrets to Buffett's success.
		He is the author of The Warren Buffett CEO, a book Buffett recommended to his shareholders, and 101 Reasons to Own the World’s Greatest Investment: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (both published by Wiley).
	www.fairinvestment.co.uk /Bookshop/Book/Warren+Buffett+Wealth/19524 (279 words)

	Business: Being Warren Buffett: It's fun
		LAKELAND -- Yes, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chief executive Warren Buffett is a billionaire.
		Though Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., spent most of the day Tuesday talking about subsidiary GEICO, he also found time to talk about some other things.
		Buffett recently talked to a group of high-schoolers, and the first question was this: Are all rich people jerks?
	www.sptimes.com /News/121599/Business/Being_Warren_Buffett_.shtml (398 words)

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