Becoming Warren Buffett
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- Year:
- 2017
- 90 min
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Woman:
And now one of the mostrespected investors in America
is going to tell you
about his secrets.
Man:
"Warren Buffett."It's the sound of money.
$9.2 billion...
Woman 2:
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett,in America.
Man 2:
He's estimated to be worth about $62 billion.
That makes him
the richest man in the world.
Woman 3:
You know,Buffett is not exactly what you might expect.
Woman 4:
Even though he's in the money business,
he doesn't even own
a calculator or a computer.
Man 3:
He takes the long view,
and it's made him billions,
many billions.
Man 4:
Maybe you can beat the house,
but I don't think you can beat
Warren Buffett.
Man 5:
Buffett filed his firstBut he's no average
billionaire, Tom.
Tom:
No, he certainly isn't, Matt.
Woman 5:
He's a $44 billion average Joe.
Man 7:
Warren Buffett has an approach
that doesn't make him very popular
with his fellow billionaires.
Man 8:
Warren Buffett,the boy from Nebraska
who grew up to become
the Wizard of Omaha.
Man 9:
What was it about himthat allowed him to become
the richest man in the world?
How did he do it?
Warren:
70 years ago,I was in high school.
Almost a third as long
as the country has been around.
And when I was
in high school,
I really only had
two things on my mind...
girls and cars.
And...
and I wasn't doing very well with girls,
so we'll talk
about cars.
But lets just imagine
that when we finish,
I'm going to let each one of you
pick out the car of your choice.
Sounds good, doesn't it?
Pick it out,
any color, you name it,
it'll be tied up with a bow,
and it'll be at your house tomorrow.
And you say,
"Well, what's the catch?"
And the catch is...
that it's the only car you're
going to get in your lifetime.
Now what are you going to do,
knowing that that's the only car
you're ever going to have
and you love that car?
You're going to take care of
it like you cannot believe.
Now what I'd like to suggest
is that you're not going to get
only one car in your lifetime,
but you're gonna get
one body and one mind,
and that's all
you're going to get.
And that body and mind
feels terrific now,
but it has
to last you a lifetime.
I'm on the way
to the office.
It's all
of a five-minute drive.
Been doing it...
for 54 years.
One of the good things
about this five-minute drive
is that on the way there's a McDonald's,
so I'll pick up something.
Woman on speaker: Good morning,
thank you for choosing McDonald's.
Go ahead and order
whenever you're ready.
I'll have a Sausage McMuffin
with egg and cheese.
Woman:
Anything else?That's it, thank you.
Warren:
Yeah,and I tell my wife as I shave in the morning,
I say either $2.61,
$2.95, or $3.17,
and she puts that amount
in a little cup by me here
and that determines
which of three breakfasts I get.
Hi. 2.95.
Okay, 2.95.
There's the two.
How you doing, sir!
Hey, great!
You're on "Candid Camera"!
I see. Hello, everybody!
Warren:
When I'm not feeling quite so prosperous,
I might go with a 2.61,
which is two sausage patties,
and then I put 'em together
and pour myself a Coke.
Hi, how are you?
Hi. I've been good.
3.17 is a bacon, egg,
and cheese biscuit,
but the market's
down this morning,
so I think I'll pass up the
3.17 and go with the 2.95.
Warren:
I like numbers.
It started before
I could remember.
It just felt good,
working with numbers.
I was always playing around with
numbers in one-way or another.
And it was fun to have
a bunch of guys over
and have them betting on which
marble would reach the drain first.
I had a lot
of energy as a kid.
I... I was inquisitive,
and I was the youngest one
always in the class,
'cause I'd skip.
I've always been competitive.
I liked to read
more than most kids.
I really like
to read a lot.
My Aunt Edie gave me
a copy of "The World Almanac"
and that was heaven to me.
And I can still tell you that Omaha's
population was 214,006 in 1930.
Some numbers
just kind of stick with you.
And very early,
probably when I was seven or so,
I took this book out
of the Benson Library
called "A Thousand Ways
to Make a $1,000."
And one of the ways
in this book
was having
penny weighing machines.
And I sat and calculated
how much it would cost
to buy the first
weighing machine,
and then how long
it would take for the profit
from that one to buy another one,
and I would sit there
and create these
compound interest tables
to figure out how long
it would take me to have
a weighing machine
for every person in the world.
I had everybody in the country
weighing themselves ten times a day,
and me just sitting there like John
D. Rockefeller of weighing machines.
The allowance when I was a
little boy was a nickel a week,
but I liked the idea of having a little
more than a nickel a week to work with,
and I went
into business very early.
door to door.
I sold gum door to door.
I sold
"Saturday Evening Post,"
"Liberty" magazine,
"Ladies Home Journal," you name it.
almost right from the start.
But I like being my own boss.
That's one thing I liked
about delivering papers.
I could arrange
the route I wanted.
Nobody was bothering me
at 5:
00 or 6:00 in the morning.I was delivering
500 papers a day,
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