Name - Warren Edward Buffet
Famous - Among the most successful investor in America and the world
Warren Buffet is also known as - Wizard of Omaha or Oracle of Omaha or Sage of Omaha
Born - 30 august 1930, Omaha Nebraska USA
Political - Democratic
Education & Career
1941 – Warren Buffet at the age of 11yrs, bought 3 shares of cities services preferred at $38 per share
1942 – Warren Buffet began his education at rose hill elementary school in Omaha
1947- Warren Buffet graduated at Woodrow Wilson high school
1947 – Warren Buffet entered college as a freshman Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania
1949 – Warren Buffet graduated with Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1951 – Warren Buffet got masters of Science in economics from Colombia
1956 - Warren Buffet formed Buffet Partnership Ltd
Bussiness & Career
1951 – 1954 – Warren Buffet was employed at Buffet Falk & co, Omaha as investment salesman
1954 – 1956 - Warren Buffet was employed at Graham Newan Corp, New York as the Security Analyst.
1956 – 1969 - Warren Buffet was employed at Buffet Partnership Ltd, Omaha as General Patner
1965 - 2015 - Warren Buffet assumed the control of the Berkshire Hathaway
1970 – Present Warren Buffet was employed at Berkshire Hathway Inc, Omaha as its chairman and CEO
1989-2006 - Warren Buffet became the director of the Berkshire Hathaway’s significant investment in Coca-Cola
June 2006 - Warren Buffet announced that he would be be giving his entire fortune away to charity committing 85% to Bill and Melinda Foundation.(His donation became the largest act of charitable giving in the United States)
2010 - Warren Buffet and Bill Gates announced that they have formed the giving pledge campaign to recruit more wealthy individuals for philanthropic causes.
2012 - Warren Buffet announced that he has been diagnosed with the prostate cancer
February 2013 - Warren Buffet purchased H.J Heinz with private equity group 3G capital for $28 Billion
2016 - Warren Buffet launched Drive2Vote – A website encouraging people of Nebraska to exercise their right to vote
2015 - Warren Buffet has been a vocal supporter of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
2016 – Warren Buffet was a Director of Precision Castparts Corp.
Awards
2011 - Warren Buffet was presented with presidential medal by President Barack Obama
- In his life time Warren Buffet served as Director of Citigroup Global Markets Holdings,Graham Holdings Company and the Gillete Company
- Warren Buffet is considered to be the most successful investor of the 20th century and the biggest Philanthropist at our age
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