Becoming Warren Buffett Page #3

It was totally outside of anything

my family had experienced,

but he just was

unusual that way.

Doris Buffett:

Well, I was the oldest,

and then my brother

and then my sister.

And my father would go

to New York periodically

to check on businesses,

stocks, and things like that,

and he'd come back,

he'd always have a costume

for each of us,

and Warren loved it.

He was very good-natured.

He was quiet.

It was hard to tell

he was a genius at that point,

but I mean,

who was looking?

Warren:

The first books I read on investment

were actually

in my dad's office.

Pretty soon, I read

all the books in the office

and read some of them

more than once.

My dad had

various nicknames for me.

He'd call me

"Fireball" sometimes,

because I'd start

little businesses.

He didn't care

about money at all.

He believed very much

in having an inner scorecard

and never worry about what other

people are thinking about you.

You know, just... just...

if you know why you're doing what

you're doing, that's good enough.

I admired everything

about him to the extent

that I was absorbing lessons

from him without knowing it.

And the idea that all lives have

equal value is something that

all three of his children

felt since I can remember.

My dad at one point

ran for congress

when I was 12 or so.

It was

a very republican household.

I campaigned for him.

My sisters campaigned for him.

The whole family did.

My mother was

very, very bright,

and she was very gregarious.

She was a good campaigner for my dad.

Bertie:

She had a lot of ambition,

and I think

my brother Warren got a lot

of his extreme competitiveness

from my mother, actually.

Doris:

She was brilliant at math.

You know, I guess

they still had these things

where you crank them

and things added up,

and she could add it in her head

faster than the machine could do it.

She was

absolutely amazing in that.

Warren:
She was very dutiful

about taking care of the kids,

but you didn't get

the same feeling of... of love.

It was there, but it just... it didn't

come out the same way as with my dad.

Howard Buffett, Sr. on radio:

In the nation, the only permanent way

to prosperity is

a balanced budget.

Unless that goal

is achieved,

all post-war plans will collapse

like Hitler's conquest.

Man on radio:
You have heard

Congressman Howard L.H. Buffett,

a Republican member

of the House of Representatives

from Nebraska

speaking on the...

Warren:

When I was about 12 or 13,

we moved to Washington,

my family, and I was mad.

I was having fun in Omaha,

and I lost all my friends,

and now I moved to a town

where they were all strange,

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