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Warren Buffet INTERESTING ASPECTS OF LIFE - WARREN BUFFET There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life: 1. He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late! 2. He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers. 3. He still lives in the same small 3-bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence. 4. He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him. 5. He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest private jet company. 6. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on

Steps to Success

1) Make sure you make friends with the right people. Work, like most things involves a heavy dose of social networking. Unlike in college where your aim was to make friends with the coolest people i.e. those most likely to get you laid, in the work environment being friends with the guy with a four foot bong is not as helpful as you might expect. Sometimes you get lucky and actually have some friends at your job. While these friendship can be meaningful, if you really want to help your career you have to play nice with the big shots. Big shots have a two sided memory. All your accomplishments and hard work are stored in the section market keep for five seconds then disregard. I call this the goldfish section. The other part of their memory sector is relegated to any mistake you make and its average storage time is the rest of your life. I call this area the “I’m a huge asshole, I use my blackberry constantly, look how important I am” section. It has a catchy name don’t you think? As wh