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巴菲特 （Warren Buffett）英文简介 Brief Introduction Warren Edward Buffett , born in 1930, is an American investor , industrialist and philanthropist . Investors all over the world recognize the name of Warren Buffett. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world, who is often called the legendary investor, Warren Buffett. Buffett is the primary shareholder , chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway . He is consistently ranked among the worlds wealthiest people . He was ranked by Forbes as the worlds richest person in 2008 and is the third richest person in the world as of 2011. Early Life Even as a child, Buffett displayed an interest in making and saving money. He went door to door selling chewing gum, Coca-Cola , or weekly magazines. While still in high school, he carried out several successful money-making ideas: delivering newspapers, selling golf balls and stamps. Buffett and Stock Buffetts interest in the stock market and investing also dated to his childhood, to the days he spent in the customers lounge of a regional stock brokerage near the office of his fathers own brokerage company. On a trip to New York City at the age of ten, he made a point to visit the New York Stock Exchange . At the age of 11, he bought three shares of Cities Service Preferred for himself, and three for his sister. Education experience Buffett entered college as a freshmen in 1947 at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and studied there for two years from 1947 to 1949. In the year 1950, when he entered his junior year, he transferred to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln where at the age of nineteen, he graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. After the completion of his undergraduate studies, Buffett enrolled at Columbia Business School after learning that Benjamin Graham (author of The Intelligent Investor – one of his favorite books on investing) and David Dodd , two well-known securi