滚雪球：巴菲特自传 The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
分類: 图书,进口原版书,传记 Biographies & Memoirs ,
作者： Alice Schroeder著
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出版时间： 2008-9-1字数：版次： 1页数： 960印刷时间： 2008-09-01开本： 16开印次：纸张：I S B N ： 9780553805093包装： 精装内容简介
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omahainvestor 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."
THE S NOWBALL
Although the media track him constantly,Buffett himself has never told his full lifestory. His reality has been kept private,especially by celebrity standards. Indeed,while the homespun persona that the publicsees is true as far as it goes, it goes only sofar. Warren Buffett is an array of paradoxes.He set out to prove that nice guys can finishfirst. Over the years he treated his investorsas partners, acted as their steward, andchampioned honesty as an investor, CEO,board member, essayist, and speaker. At thesame time he became the world's richestman, all from the modest Omaha headquartersof his company Berkshire Hathaway. None ofthis fits the term "simple."When Alice Schroeder met Warren Buffett,she was an insurance industry analyst and agifted writer known for her keen perceptionand business acumen. Her writings on financeimpressed him, and as she came to know himshe realized that while much had been writtenon the subject of his investing style, no one hadmoved beyond that to explore his largerphilosophy, which is bound up in a complexpersonality and the details of his life, Out ofthis came his decision to cooperate with heron the book about himself that he wouldnever write.
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/TheRacetrack
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
PART FOUR/SusieSings
34: Candy Harry
35: The Sun
36: Two Drowned Rats
37: Newshound
38: Spaghetti Western
39: The Giant
40: How Not to Run a Public Library
41: And Then What?
42: Blue Ribbon
PART FIVE/The King of Wall Street
43: Pharaoh
44: Rose
45: Call the Tow Truck
46: Rubicon
47: White Nights
48: Thumb-Sucking, and ItsHollow-Cheeked Result
49: The Angry Gods
50: The Lottery
51: To Hell with the Bear
52: Chickenfeed
PART 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
Afterword
Notes
A Personal Note About Research
Photo Credits and Permissions
Acknowledgments
Index
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"Life is like a snowball.The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill." ——Warren Buffett
书摘插图
Never before has Buffett spent countless hours responding to a writer's questions, talking, giving complete access to his wife, children, friends, and business associates-- opening his files, recalling his childhood. It was an act of courage, as The snowball makes immensely clear. Being human, his own life, like most lives, has been a mix of strengths and frailties. Yet notable though his fortune may be, Buffett's legacy will not be his ranking on the scorecard of wealth; it will be his principles and ideas that have enriched people's lives. This book tells you why Warren Buffett is the most fascinating American success story of our time. ALICE SCHROEDERwas a Wall Street analyst and a managing director at Morgan Stanley when she decided at Warren Buffett,s suggestion to write full-time. Texas-born, Ms. Schroeder earned her undergraduate degree and an MBA at the University of Texas at Austin before moving east to work in finance. A former CPA, she lives in Connecticut with her husband.
