He donated 85% of the Berkshire Hathaway stocks to charity, notably via his Buffett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In the last decade, he donated more than 25 billion dollars to charitable organizations.
The following interesting and little-known details of his life were highlighted by Entrerpreneur.com.
One of the most successful investors of all time
1. He bought his first shares at the age of 11. By the age of 16, he earned more than $ 50,000.
2. He was rejected at Harvard. Then he wrote two men he admired as investors who were teaching at the Columbia University, and he was accepted. In the letter he wrote: "I thought you guys were dead, but now that I found out that you're alive and teaching at Columbia, I would really like to come."
3. In 2013, he earned $ 37 million a day.
4. He earned more than 90% of his wealth after the age of 60.
5. He loves Coca-Cola, potato chips and ice cream.
6. He has been living in the same house since 1958. He originally bought it for $ 31,000.
7. He has held an annual charitable auction on eBay since 2000. The most generous donor has lunch with Warren Buffett. He has already donated more than $ 20 million this way. People are even willing to pay more than $ 3 million to have lunch with him.
8. He spends 80% of the day reading. He is able to read as much as 500 pages a day.
9. He almost never uses e-mail. He was no website or profiles on social networks. The exception is Twitter, where Buffett has a profile with over 1.25 million fans. However, none of the nine posts on the profile were written by Buffett.
10. He uses an old Nokia flip mobile phone. He reportedly doesn't throw anything away if he's had it for less than twenty years.
11. He has played the ukulele since he was 18.
Watch a 360-degree video made by Bill Gates to mark 25 years of friendship with Warren Buffet. At the end of the video, they both sing and Buffett plays the ukulele. Bill Gates posted this video on his blog in July, 2016.
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