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What was Warren Buffett’s early life like? How did his childhood shape his career?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Alice Schroeder’s book The Snowball<\/em>, Warren Buffett didn’t have the greatest childhood. However, it was instrumental in building the man he is today and the success he built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read below to learn more about the early life of Warren Buffett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Buffett\u2019s Beginnings<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Unlike other giants in the field of business, Warren Buffett would never claim to be a \u201cself-made man.\u201d <\/em>In fact, he would often gladly admit that his life was shaped by his family, his teachers, and the era into which he was born. Schroeder explains how Buffett was molded by the example of his parents, his fascination with numbers, the economics of the Depression, and the ideas he was exposed to in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Warren Buffett’s early life, the Buffetts were a long-established family of grocers in Omaha, Nebraska, but were never wealthy or members of the elite. Warren\u2019s father Howard became a stockbroker shortly before the crash of 1929. While the rest of the economy dwindled, though, Howard Buffett succeeded by dealing in stable securities and bonds. Schroeder says he prized integrity overall, a trait that got him elected to Congress in 1942. Of all his father\u2019s characteristics, it was how he stuck to his principles and expounded on his beliefs that Warren Buffett would emulate throughout his life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Like Buffett\u2019s father, there were others who found success during the Great Depression<\/a>. Joseph Kennedy Sr.<\/a>, patriarch of the famous Kennedy family, recognized that the market was overvalued and sold off the majority of his stock prior to the crash. Floyd Bostwick Odlum<\/a>, a utilities investor, also saw the trend and cashed out. After the downturn, he used his liquid assets to buy up failing companies at discount prices, a practice that Buffett would later employ.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren\u2019s mother Leila Stahl Buffett grew up working the presses at her father\u2019s newspaper, the Cuming County Democrat<\/em>. She and Howard Buffett met in college, and they had three children\u2014Doris, Warren, and Roberta. Howard and Leila Buffett frowned upon any displays of emotion from their children, but Schroeder writes that in addition to that, Leila was verbally abusive, especially toward Doris, though Warren was a frequent target as well. This gave him an aversion to conflict and a lifelong fear of disappointing others.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: In Emotional Intelligence<\/em><\/a>, Daniel Goleman lists ignoring feelings and treating them with contempt<\/a> as two distinct harmful parenting behaviors that lead children to develop issues with anger and depression. While Buffett was able to dodge those two pitfalls, he did grow up to be a people-pleaser, which Bren\u00e9 Brown, in her book Daring Greatly<\/em><\/a>, says is a symptom of perfectionism arising from internalizing a parent\u2019s negative criticism<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buffett\u2019s Introduction to Finance<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Warren Buffett was born on August 30, 1930, as the Great Depression was sweeping the country. As an introverted child<\/a> with an abusive mother, young Warren found safety in the hidden world of numbers. Schroeder recounts that he was fascinated by baseball statistics and calculating odds in games such as bridge. When he was 10, his father took him to the New York Stock Exchange, which impressed upon Buffett that becoming wealthy<\/a> would grant him independence<\/a> from other people\u2019s demands and expectations.<\/strong> At the age of 11, he announced to his friends that he wanted to be a millionaire by the age of 35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Though Buffett grew up hearing about finance from his father, it was his peek \u201cbehind the curtain\u201d that made the most lasting impression. The brokers on Wall Street had spent the last 10 years working hard to rebuild their prosperity and reputation<\/a>. When Buffett first visited in 1940, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had recently hit its highest peak between the crash of 1929 and the start of WWII<\/a>. Though the Dow had been on the road to recovery, the threat of war in Europe and the Pacific slowly pushed stocks down to near post-Depression prices. However, coinciding with the US victory at Midway in 1942, the market turned around and soared for the rest of the decade<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buffett was turned down by the Harvard Business School, but when he learned that business author Benjamin Graham was teaching at Columbia University, he chose to apply there too. Schroeder says that Graham did more than anyone else to shape Buffett\u2019s ideas on investing. Graham taught that stocks are more than numbers\u2014they represent the real value<\/a> of companies. He developed a way to calculate a company\u2019s actual worth and suggested that if its stock price was lower than it should be, that price would eventually rise to its true value, despite any short-term market fluctuations. The trick was finding those undervalued stocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Schroeder, this appealed to Buffett in the strongest possible way. Graham\u2019s method merged the pursuit of wealth with Buffett\u2019s love of collecting statistics and hunting through numerical data.<\/strong> Most of all, it framed Buffett\u2019s lifelong dream of independence through wealth as something that could be fulfilled through persistence, level-headedness, and patient dedication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investing According to Graham<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin Graham\u2019s ideas on money are spelled out in The Intelligent Investor<\/em><\/a>, first published in 1949. Graham differentiates between thoughtful investors and speculators<\/em>\u2014also called \u201cday traders.\u201d The speculating class of investors, he says, are led by emotion and irrational optimism<\/a> while chasing short-term gains and following the whims of the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham divides the rest of the investing world into \u201cdefensive\u201d and \u201caggressive\u201d investors. Defensive investors wish to make money simply and safely<\/a> without putting too much effort into investment decisions. Aggressive investors, on the other hand, put all their time and energy into making well-researched investments<\/a>, in effect pursuing investing as a full-time profession. Warren Buffett clearly falls into this latter category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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