billionaires

[alice wellintown]

I read a few chapters from this tome and liked what I read about the
man's wife. Cool people. Busy. Remind me of my parents; Dad still
can't travel anywhere the WSJ isn't delivered and Mom is still doing
the good works that will, no doubt, land them both in heaven.



The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (ISBN
0553805096) is a biography about Warren Buffett by Alice Schroeder.
This book was written in 2008, 10 years after Schroeder's 1998 meeting
with Buffett.



On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:02 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> I remember some years ago in an interview Carl Icahn was asked what if he
> made ten billion dollars (whatever the figure was) and realized he wasn't
> happy.  Icahn said it would mean he'd picked too low a number.
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> The start-up company I joined earlier this year made a presentation this
> summer to a guy who sits at number 200-something on the Forbes' richest
> people list.  This guy's got  billions of dollars, has a company that does
> business in 89 countries, he's an interesting guy, worked his way up.  At a
> certain point in the slide show, what we now refer to as the "money shot",
> he started mumbling to himself then made a few audible comments that
> indicated he was figuring up how much money could be made on what we were
> showing him.  I expected him to start drooling but he didn't, not quite. The
> guy's getting up there in years, too, and still it's the money and the power
> the money buys that motivates him.  Remarkable.
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