The World’s Greatest Money Maker: Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is the greatest investor of all time. His decisions about buying shares and companies have beaten the stock market year after year and made him the richest person in the world – thought to be worth 37 billion dollars.

Yet Buffett lives modestly in his native Omaha, in America’s mid-West, and runs his 150 billion dollar business with a staff of just twenty. Evan Davis meets him to find out about his unique investment strategy and his eccentric lifestyle. Evan talks to Buffett’s family, friends and colleagues about the man they call the Sage of Omaha, and Buffett’s friend Bill Gates praises his philosophy of life.

As the greed of the super-wealthy is widely criticised in the current financial crisis, Davis asks whether Warren Buffett is the acceptable face of the filthy rich.

Released 26 Oct 2009. Executive Producer Dominic Crossley-Holland. TV documentary.

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  • Maurice Aherne (exDublin)

    actuarily speaking ‘ 5000days left’

    Mr Buffet is an optimist-all right!. I’m going for longevity too; though for a while -an exit on Brooklyn was preferable.

    Hopfully, fate won’t construe the negativity of the first 50 years on me. Although my current ladyfriend might wonder at my former aspiration.
    I have possibly-non actuarily, mind you -some millionth by a number-less wealth. Yet, I surmise–Norm and I, may have something in common-
    INSIGHT!

    Be all that as it may… if I were even a dollar short of a billion -I’d still choose to live amongst my own in Ireland. Naw! Unlike Norm-I’d choose places which I briefly had time to enjoy-from the shores of Pismo Beach California-to Pankow Berlin.

    Norm-ol boy-you still have the time!. That last ‘commodity’ you cannot trade nor buy.

    Maurice Aherne
    aka
    MOSAherne on google search
    or Maurice O’Sullivan Aherne to honour both parents

    • MOSAherne

      Maybe-my circumlocution above- hid the message.

      In a sentence———TIME-that is left-is the best commodity to have -or to be aware of having.

  • Maurice Aherne (exDublin)

    woops–4000 days-not 5000 -Tempus ‘does’ fugit!