American investors

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 101. Chapters: Michael Milken, Wayne Rogers, Warren Buffett, Jim Cramer, T. Boone Pickens, Andrew Saul, Marc J. Lane, Colleen Moore, John W. Rogers, Jr., Carl Icahn, Mark Spitznagel, Michael Benjamin, Benjamin Graham, Mark Skousen, Bradley S Jacobs, Jason Galanis, Steven A. Cohen, Paul Tudor Jones, David Dodd, Michael C. Finnegan, Charlie Munger, Ishar Bindra, Daniel S. Peña, Sr., Neil Chriss, Louis Bacon, Shawn Baldwin, Scott Painter, James O'Shaughnessy, Randal Quarles, Thomas Kaplan, Edward M. House, Mark Mobius, Randy Lerner, Richard A. Barone, John Bogle, Jeeri R. Reddy, Marshall Cogan, Blair Hull, Clayton Bennett, Barton Biggs, Ted Waitt, Michael Burry, John H. Kunsky, Toby Crabel, Richard Rainwater, Phil Town, Gary P. Brinson, John Peter Galanis, Jeremy Grantham, Harold Doley, John D. Arnold, Edward Lampert, John T. Reed, Richard Donchian, Eugene Luther Vidal, Frederick H. Prince, Richard Driehaus, David Lucca, Mark Ripple, David B. Weinberger, Mark Thompson, Asher Edelman, James Chanos, Irving Kahn, Mellody Hobson, Andrew Lahde, Charles Hayden, Isaac Perlmutter, Scott Rothbort, Donald R. McLennan, Andy Kessler, Eileen Rominger, Sanford I. Berman, Darla Moore, Deena Katz, Arthur J. Samberg, Tim Collins, Arthur L. Carter, Doug Casey, Max Heine, Kevin Jeffries, David J. Winters, Adam C. Hochfelder, Michael F. Price, John Rhoads, Richard Marin, Arthur Hind, William P. Egan, Timothy Sykes, Tom Basso, Thomas W. Knutson, Jack Nash, Douglas Leone, Mason Hawkins, Charles Biderman, Brenda Buttner, Christopher H. Browne, Paul Francis, Dagen McDowell, Jonathan Hoenig, Lynn Tilton, Todd Combs, Eric Rosenfeld, John M. McQuillan, Tom Gegax, John Calamos, Larry Rafferty, Ken calhoun, Serge Semenenko, Thomas Somers, Thomas M. Benninger, Gil Blake, Herbert Allen, Jr., Greg Hawkins, Terry Keenan, Sardar Biglari, Leighton Campbell, Seth Tobias, Shelby Davis, Larry Hilibrand, Walter Channing, Quincy Adams Shaw. Excerpt: Warren Edward Buffett (pronounced ; born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, industrialist and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world. Often called the "legendary investor, Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008 and is the third wealthiest person in the world as of 2011. Buffett is called the "Oracle of Omaha" or the "Sage of Omaha" and is noted for his adherence to the value investing philosophy and for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth. Buffett is also a notable philanthropist, having pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic causes, primarily via the Gates Foundation. He also serves as a member of the board of trustees at Grinnell College. Buffett was born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, the second of three children and only son of businessman & politician, Howard Buffett, and his wife Leila (née Stahl). Buffett began his education at Rose Hill Elementary School in Omaha. In 1942, his father was elected to the first of four terms in the United States Congress, and after moving with his family to Washington, D.C., Warren finished elementary school, attended Alice Deal Junior High School, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1947, where his senior yearbook picture reads: "likes math; a future stock broker." Even as a child, Buffett displayed...