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Books by Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the most successful investors in history. He studied under Benjamin Graham at Columbia Business School and worked at Graham-Newman before launching his own investment partnerships in 1956. He acquired control of Berkshire Hathaway, a failing textile company, in 1965 and transformed it into a holding company with more than sixty subsidiaries. Lawrence Cunningham is a law professor at George Washington University who edited and organized the annual letters into thematic form. The essays were first compiled and distributed in 1996 and have been updated in multiple editions as new letters have been written.