The Snowball, (Paperback)

from ALincolnNut

Warren Buffett, after a career spanning more than 50 years, has justly earned his nickname "the Oracle of Omaha." His ultrasuccessful career as an investor, coupled with his famous inexpensive tastes, have added layers of myth to his legend. Alice Schroeder, a former analyst at Morgan Stanley, of...

from adribabe

Boy was this book long and dragged at times. All in all i enjoyed reading about the quirkiness of Warren Buffet and understanding how genuinely fascinated he has always been with business. It cut a very painful reality of how unaware and unsophisticated the general public is about business and Wa...

from TigerLMS

This is an early review, as I'm still reading the book. After all, this title has almost as many pages as Buffett has dollars. So far, this is one of the more engaging business memoirs I've read in quite some time. Schroder effectively weaves Buffett's childhood narrative to show how some of his ...

from joecflee

Tough to separate the man from the book. Warren Buffet's life is fascinating, and I commend the author for extracting as much as she did from Mr. Buffet. It is truly an amazing tale of a man who started as a collector and watched it snowball into billions. Some parts are a bit preachy, but then, ...

from TigerLMS

This is an early review, as I'm still reading the book. After all, this title has almost as many pages as Buffett has dollars. So far, this is one of the more engaging business memoirs I've read in quite some time. Schroder effectively weaves Buffett's childhood narrative to show how some of his ...