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The snowball : Warren Buffett and the business of life / Alice Schroeder. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Bantam Books, (c)2008.Description: xi, 960 pages, 32. pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780553805093
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HG172.S381.S669 2008
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Contents:
1: Less flattering version -- 2: Sun Valley -- 3: Creatures of habit -- 4: Warren, what's wrong? -- Part 2: Inner Scorecard -- 5: Urge to preach -- 6: Bathtub steeplechase -- 7: Armistice Day -- 8: Thousand ways -- 9: Inky fingers -- 10: True crime stories -- 11: Pudgy she was not -- 12: Silent sales -- 13: Rules of the racetrack -- 14: Elephant -- 15: Interview -- 16: Strike one -- 17: Mount Everest -- 18: Miss Nebraska -- 19: Stage fright -- Part 3: Racetrack -- 20: Graham-Newman -- 21: Side to play -- 22: Hidden splendor -- 23 Omaha club -- 24: Locomotive -- 25: Windmill war -- 26: Haystacks of gold -- 27: Folly -- 28: Dry tinder -- 29: What a worsted is -- 30: Jet Jack -- 31: Scaffold sways the future -- 32: Easy, safe, profitable, and pleasant -- 33: Unwinding -- Part 4: Susie Sings -- 34: Candy Harry -- 35: Sun -- 36: Two drowned rats -- 37: Newshound -- 38: Spaghetti western -- 39: Giant -- 40: How not to run a public library -- 41: Then what? -- 42: Blue ribbon -- Part 5: King Of Wall Street -- 43: Pharaoh -- 44: Rose -- 45: Call the tow truck -- 46: Rubicon -- 47: White nights -- 48: Thumb-sucking, and its hollow-cheeked result -- 49: Angry Gods -- 50: Lottery -- 51: To hell with the bear -- 52: Chickenfeed -- Part 6: Claim Checks -- 53: Genie -- 54: Semicolon -- 55: Last Kay party -- 56: By the rich, for the rich -- 57: Oracle -- 58: Buffetted -- 59: Winter -- 60: Frozen coke -- 61: Seventh fire -- 62: Claim checks -- Afterword -- Notes -- Personal note about research -- Photo credits and permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject: A portrait of the life and career of investment guru Warren Buffett sheds new light on the man, as well as on the work, ideas, business principles, strategies, and no-nonsense insights that have guided his phenomenally successful business endeavors.
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Part 1: Bubble -- 1: Less flattering version -- 2: Sun Valley -- 3: Creatures of habit -- 4: Warren, what's wrong? -- Part 2: Inner Scorecard -- 5: Urge to preach -- 6: Bathtub steeplechase -- 7: Armistice Day -- 8: Thousand ways -- 9: Inky fingers -- 10: True crime stories -- 11: Pudgy she was not -- 12: Silent sales -- 13: Rules of the racetrack -- 14: Elephant -- 15: Interview -- 16: Strike one -- 17: Mount Everest -- 18: Miss Nebraska -- 19: Stage fright -- Part 3: Racetrack -- 20: Graham-Newman -- 21: Side to play -- 22: Hidden splendor -- 23 Omaha club -- 24: Locomotive -- 25: Windmill war -- 26: Haystacks of gold -- 27: Folly -- 28: Dry tinder -- 29: What a worsted is -- 30: Jet Jack -- 31: Scaffold sways the future -- 32: Easy, safe, profitable, and pleasant -- 33: Unwinding -- Part 4: Susie Sings -- 34: Candy Harry -- 35: Sun -- 36: Two drowned rats -- 37: Newshound -- 38: Spaghetti western -- 39: Giant -- 40: How not to run a public library -- 41: Then what? -- 42: Blue ribbon -- Part 5: King Of Wall Street -- 43: Pharaoh -- 44: Rose -- 45: Call the tow truck -- 46: Rubicon -- 47: White nights -- 48: Thumb-sucking, and its hollow-cheeked result -- 49: Angry Gods -- 50: Lottery -- 51: To hell with the bear -- 52: Chickenfeed -- Part 6: Claim Checks -- 53: Genie -- 54: Semicolon -- 55: Last Kay party -- 56: By the rich, for the rich -- 57: Oracle -- 58: Buffetted -- 59: Winter -- 60: Frozen coke -- 61: Seventh fire -- 62: Claim checks -- Afterword -- Notes -- Personal note about research -- Photo credits and permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

A portrait of the life and career of investment guru Warren Buffett sheds new light on the man, as well as on the work, ideas, business principles, strategies, and no-nonsense insights that have guided his phenomenally successful business endeavors.

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