American business magnate Warren Buffett tells the next Berkshire Hathaway CEO that he or she should not be greedy. And Buffett is currently the second richest person in the world. The 84-year-old Warren Buffett stuck with his usual $100,000 year salary in 2014, and he has stayed at this amount for many decades. His company, …
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Warren Buffett has recently made his largest donation yet, where he gave $2.8 billion in securities to the four Buffett family foundations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In total, by adding up all of Buffett’s contributions, over the last eight years he has donated $18.7 billion. Back in 2007, Warren Buffett pledged to …
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Howard Buffett, the son of Berkshire Hathaway cofounder and billionaire investor Warren Buffett, pledged a helicopter yesterday plus more in order to fight African poachers, we learned according to a report published by the Environment News Service. Upon making a visit to Tanzania, the farmer and philanthropist, who manages three experimental farms plus a family …
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Having great family connections can’t hurt. One Omaha couple used their family connections to bring in Bono, U2 front man as their wedding singer last weekend. Bono grabbed the mic and sang “Stand by Me” at the wedding reception of Emily Greenberg. She is Warren Buffett’s granddaughter. If you’d like to check it out, press …
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In honor of Warren Buffett’s 83rd birthday, we decided to share the Berkshire Hathaway CEOs five greatest gifts to the world. Let’s take a look… Donating His Fortune (and Convincing Others to Join Him) Warren Buffett, along with billionaire philanthropists Melinda and Bill Gates, launched the Giving Pledge during 2010. This pledge encourages the richest …
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When Howard Buffett finds himself behind the will of a farm tractor he acts like a 58-year-old, gray-haired kid. He even went on to describe the tractor’s GPS system as “very cool.” “I’m driving hands-free,” said Howard Buffett, son of billionaire business leader Warren Buffett. He went on to mention that the tractor has been …
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While doing some reading and research about Warren Buffett, I came across a letter that I found very interesting from Howard Buffett, father of Warren Buffett. As you know, Howard played a major part in Warren Buffett’s life and had a huge impact on the billionaire investor. That’s why it was so surprising to learn …
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According to billionaire investor Warren Buffett, he recently chose Howard Buffett, his son, to take over as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway when he finally retires. You might wonder why Mr. Buffett picked his son to take over as the chairman of the company. Was it preferential treatment? Was it laziness? It was neither those things. …
As Howard Buffett looked over a room of 700 people in Des Moines, Iowa, all there to hear him speak about the fight against world hunger, he gave the room a dose of constructive criticism. When Buffett addressed the crowd of government officials, foreign aid association representatives and nonprofit leaders all there to help end …
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Warren Buffett’s children are well at work helping him give away a good portion of his $47 billion fortune. Their approach to donating this money is very similar to the way their father made all of that money to begin with. Just like Buffett himself, each of his children have a tiny staff to work …
