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Stock traders
Bernard Baruch, Warren Buffett, Jim Moran, George Soros, John W.Rogers, Jr., Mark Spitznagel, James Harris Simons, Stock trader, Jesse Lauriston Livermore, Charles Brickley, Michael Marcus, Nicolas Darvas, Ed Seykota, Yogesh Chabria
ISBN/EAN: 9781156618509
Umbreit-Nr.: 7054209
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 44 S.
Format in cm: 0.3 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 05.08.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
- Zusatztext
- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Chapters: Bernard Baruch, Warren Buffett, Jim Moran, George Soros, John W. Rogers, Jr., Mark Spitznagel, James Harris Simons, Stock trader, Jesse Lauriston Livermore, Charles Brickley, Michael Marcus, Nicolas Darvas, Ed Seykota, Yogesh Chabria, Richard A. Barone, Michael Burry, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Edward Lampert, Larry Levin, Mark Ripple, William Delbert Gann, Gerald M. Loeb, Monroe Trout, Boaz Weinstein, Jonathan Lebed, Homma Munehisa, Michael J. Meehan, Charles Biderman, Takashi Suzuki, Daryl Guppy, John Hussman. Excerpt: Warren Edward Buffett (pronounced; born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, financier, and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world. Often introduced as "legendary investor, Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008 and is the third wealthiest person in the world as of 2011. Buffett is called the "Oracle of Omaha" or the "Sage of Omaha" and is noted for his adherence to the value investing philosophy and for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth. Buffett is also a notable philanthropist, having pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic causes, primarily via the Gates Foundation. He also serves as a member of the board of trustees at Grinnell College. Buffett was born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, the second of three children and only son of U.S. Representative Howard Buffett, a fierce critic of the interventionist New Deal domestic and foreign policy, and his wife Leila (née Stahl). Buffett began his education at Rose Hill Elementary School in Omaha. In 1942, his father was elected to the first of four terms in the United States Congress, and after moving with his family to Washington, D.C., Warren finished elementary school, attended Alice Deal Junior High School, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1947, where his senior yearbook picture reads: "likes math; a future stock broker." Even as a child, Buffett displayed an interest in making and saving money. He went door to door selling chewing gum, Coca-Cola, or weekly magazines. For a while, he worked in his grandfather's grocery store. While still in high school he was successful in making money by delivering newspapers, selling golfballs and stamps, and detailing cars, among other means. Filing his first income tax return in 1944, Buf