One Thousand Ways to Make $1000 Contributor(s): Fox, Page (Author), Minaker (Author), Buffett, Warren (As Told by) |
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ISBN: 9563101286 ISBN-13: 9789563101287 Publisher: Stanfordpub.com OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - History - Biography & Autobiography | Business - Business & Economics | Mergers & Acquisitions |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 8.5" W x 11" (1.09 lbs) 208 pages |
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Publisher Description: One Thousand Ways to Make $1000 is the book that Warren Buffett's biographers credit with shaping
"I like numbers, it started before I can remember,"" Buffett tells a group of Omaha Central High School students in the film. A voracious reader his entire life, at age seven he read a book he borrowed from the library, One Thousand Ways to Make $1000, and, inspired by its lessons, began selling Coca-Cola, gum and newspapers. His father, a salesman who survived the Depression, was elected to Congress when Buffett was 12, moving the family to Washington. Displaced and unhappy, Buffett lost interest in academics, attending the University of Nebraska at his father's insistence; he was turned down for admission by the Harvard Business School. This rejection was propitious: Buffett discovered that two of his financial idols, Ben Graham and David Dodd, taught at the Columbia Business School; he wrote them a letter and was accepted there. From Graham he learned what he calls the "two rules of investing" "Rule #1: Never lose money. Rule #2: Never forget Rule #1." |