The Snowball
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The Snowball
| Full title | The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life |
|---|---|
| Author | Alice Schroeder |
| Published | 2008 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Alice Schroeder’s authorised biography of Warren Buffett — a former insurance analyst given years of access, tracing the Omaha paper routes, Graham’s classroom, the partnership years, the textile mill that became a holding company, and the private costs of a life organised around compounding. The title is Buffett’s own image: start with a small snowball and roll it down a long hill. |
The Snowball
Where I heard about it
- On Jay’s investing reading list — a Google Sheet of 92 books by discipline, saved in Kyle’s Roam notes on April 15th, 2020 (Jay’s Investing Reading List). Jay’s reason: “Understanding one of the best value investors of all time”
- Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, entry 10 of the value-investing section, which opens with Graham’s Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis and then runs nine consecutive entries on Buffett and Munger — the lineage Li Lu belongs to himself. This is the long-form biography inside that cluster.
Connections
- Li Lu’s Recommended Book List — the list this came from.
- Li Lu — the Himalaya Capital founder who assembled it, and the investor Munger entrusted with family money.
- Warren Buffett — the subject.
- Charlie Munger — the partner who runs through the book.
- Berkshire Hathaway — the vehicle.
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack — the Munger-side companion, four entries earlier in the same section.
- The Intelligent Investor — entry 1 of the section, and the classroom the book’s middle act runs through.
- Security Analysis — entry 2, the other half of the Graham inheritance.
- Compounding — the snowball itself.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.