Summary: The Snowball: Review and Analysis of Schroeder's Book
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This complete summary of the ideas from Alice Schroeder's book "The Snowball" recounts the fascinating success story and biography of one of most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. In fact, this American icon has never told his full life story, but he has allowed Alice Schroeder open access to his life, struggles and triumphs. This summary explores his real philosophy and reveals his complex personality as well as the details of his life. Based on interviews with Buffett himself as well as with friends, family members and business associates, this revealing biography gives an unprecedented look at the hidden life of the man known as "The Oracle of Omaha".
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The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
About the Author
ALICE SCHROEDER is a full-time writer. She was previously a Wall Street analyst and managing director at Morgan Stanley. Ms. Schroeder is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
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Summary of The Snowball (Alice Schroeder)
Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill
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– Warren Buffett
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Warren Edward Buffett was born on August 30, 1930. In an interesting quirk of fate, this was about ten months after BlackTuesday
, October 29, 1929 when the U.S. stock market lost more than $14 billion of capitalization in a single day. ($14 billion was approx. four times the annual budget of the U.S. government at that time). Warren Buffett was born in the middle of what would come to be termed the Great Depression
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Warren’s father, Howard Buffett, had joined the Union State Bank as a stockbroker in 1927 and when the bank went bust and closed its doors in August 1931, Howard and two partners decided to start their own stockbrokerage firm. Even in the middle of the worst financial crisis ever to hit the United States, Howard Buffett’s firm did well because Howard would only sell safe securities like utility stocks and municipal bonds.
His mother, Leila Stahl Buffett, was of German-American descent. She appeared outwardly to be a perfect mother but in private, she suffered from a what was described as neuralgia
. As a consequence, she would verbally deride the young Warren and his two sisters for imaginary faults until they would be reduced to tears. This generated a lot of tension in the home environment. Current affairs, politics and news could be discussed openly and freely but nobody ever talked about their feelings at the dinner table.
Despite this, Warren recalls his childhood with fondness.
"When I was a kid, I got all kinds of good things. I had the advantage of a home where people talked about interesting things, and I had intelligent parents and I went to decent schools. I don’t think I could have been raised with a better pair of parents. That was enormously important. I didn’t get money from my parents,