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Reddit mentions of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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We found 8 Reddit mentions of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. Here are the top ones.
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| Release date | October 2009 |
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Also the book is the Schroeder book:
http://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/dp/0553384619
He bought that for his wife (who spent a lot of her time there but has since passed away). He rarely spent any time there. http://www.amazon.com/The-Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business/dp/0553384619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335731209&sr=8-1
3 - He has also frequently said that buying Berkshire Hathaway was the worst invement he's ever made. Berkshire Hathaway was a failing textile company that he bought in the era when textile companies across the US were closing down. Back then Buffett was making investments through many smaller companies and I believe the SEC required him to start consolidating his activities. Berkshire Hathaway was one of the places he started consolidating his activities to.
If the OP is serious about wanting to learn about Warren Buffett, they should read The Snowball. It is an exhaustively detailed book about life written a few years ago by an author that interviewed him over several years. I finished it a few months ago and loved it.
She wrote a biography about him. I thought it was pretty good, really enjoyed reading it.
It is a biography. Not autobiography.
I really liked that book. I agree with your points.
 
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
https://amzn.com/0553384619
4. Hang out with people that are legitimately loved by others.
As depicted in Buffett's biography, "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life," Buffett once was asked by Georgia Tech students about his greatest success and greatest failure, to which he responded: "When you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you." He adds, "I know people who have a lot of money ... but the truth is that nobody in the world loves them....that's the ultimate test of how you have lived your life." Buffett nails it with one final statement on the secret to being loved: "The trouble with love is that you can't buy it ... The only way to get love is to be lovable ... The more you give love away, the more you get."
Read this book