Warren Edward Buffett.

Warren Edward Buffett (lahir di Omaha, Nebraska, Amerika Serikat, 30 Agustus 1930; umur 79 tahun) adalah seorang investor dan pengusaha Amerika Serikat.
Ia memiliki julukan Oracle of Omaha; Buffett telah mengumpulkan kekayaan yang sangat besar dari kecerdikannya berinvestasi melalui perusahaannya Berkshire Hathaway, di mana dia memegang 38% saham. Dengan perkiraan pendapatan bersih AS$44 milyar pada 2005, dia menduduki urutan kedua sebagai orang terkaya kedua dunia menurut Forbes, di belakang Bill Gates.
Pada tahun 2008, ia menggantikan posisi Bill Gates sebagai orang terkaya di dunia versi Forbes.

In 1962, Buffett became a millionaire, because of his partnerships, which in January 1962 had an excess of $7,178,500, of which over $1,025,000 belonged to Buffett. Buffett merged all partnerships into one partnership. Buffett discovered a textile manufacturing firm, Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett's partnerships began purchasing shares at $7.60 per share. In 1965, when Buffett's partnerships aggressively began purchasing Berkshire, they paid $14.86 per share while the company had working capital of $19 per share. This did not include the value of fixed assets (factory and equipment). Buffett took control of Berkshire Hathaway at the board meeting and named a new president, Ken Chace, to run the company. In 1966, Buffett closed the partnership to new money. Buffett wrote in his letter:

unless it appears that circumstances have changed (under some conditions added capital would improve results) or unless new partners can bring some asset to the partnership other than simply capital, I intend to admit no additional partners to BPL.

In a second letter, Buffett announced his first investment in a private business — Hochschild, Kohn and Co, a privately owned Baltimore department store. In 1967, Berkshire paid out its first and only dividend of 10 cents. In 1969, following his most successful year, Buffett liquidated the partnership and transferred their assets to his partners. Among the assets paid out were shares of Berkshire Hathaway. In 1970, as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett began writing his now-famous annual letters to shareholders.

However, he lived solely on his salary of $50,000 per year, and his outside investment income. In 1979, Berkshire began the year trading at $775 per share, and ended at $1,310. Buffett's net worth reached $620 million, placing him on the Forbes 400 for the first time.

In 2006, Buffett announced in June that he gradually would give away 85% of his Berkshire holdings to five foundations in annual gifts of stock, starting in July 2006. The largest contribution would go to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.[21]

In 2007, in a letter to shareholders, Buffett announced that he was looking for a younger successor, or perhaps successors, to run his investment business.[22] Buffett had previously selected Lou Simpson, who runs investments at Geico, to fill that role. However, Simpson is only six years younger than Buffett.

In 2008, Buffett became the richest man in the world dethroning Bill Gates, worth $62 billion according to Forbes,[23] and $58 billion according to Yahoo.[24] Bill Gates had been number one on the Forbes list for 13 consecutive years.[25] March 11 2009, Bill Gates regained number one of the list according to Forbes magazine, with Buffett second. Their values have dropped to $40 billion and $37 billion respectively[26], Buffet having (according to Forbes) lost $25 billion in 12 months during 2008/2009[27].
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