{"id":2047,"date":"2008-09-10T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getrichslowly.org\/blog\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2019-10-08T19:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T02:43:14","slug":"warren-buffetts-ten-secrets-to-wealth-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/warren-buffetts-ten-secrets-to-wealth-and-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett’s ten secrets to wealth and life"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Warren Buffett is the richest man in the world<\/a>, yet his reputation for frugality, folksy wisdom, and straight talk make him seem like just a regular guy, like he might be the billionaire next door. He’s one of my heroes.<\/p>\n Several Buffett biographies have seen print over the years \u2014 The Making of an America Capitalist<\/i><\/a>, The Good Guy of Wall Street<\/a><\/i>, etc. \u2014 but at the end of September, author Alice Schroeder will publish a new one: The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n In the most recent issue of Parade<\/i> magazine (a Sunday newspaper supplement), Schroeder shares ten of Buffett’s “money-making secrets”<\/b>, which she gleaned during hundreds of hours of interviews for her book. Though Parade<\/i> has billed these as “10 ways to get rich”, I think they’re actually ten sensible ways to deal with life in general. Buffet advises:<\/p>\n Parade<\/i> also published a short piece describing how Warren Buffett made his first dime.<\/p>\n Although I consider Warren Buffett a personal hero, I realize my admiration may be more for the idea<\/i> of Buffett than for the man himself. Still, I’m eager to read this new biography when it’s released at the end of September. Maybe I should make it my selection for my monthly book group. (Nah, they’d kill me.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>Warren Buffett is the richest man in the world<\/a>, yet his reputation for frugality, folksy wisdom, and straight talk make him seem like just a regular guy, like he might be the billionaire next door. He’s one of my heroes.<\/p>\n Several Buffett biographies have seen print over the years \u2014 The Making of an America Capitalist<\/i><\/a>, The Good Guy of Wall Street<\/a><\/i>, etc. \u2014 but at the end of September, author Alice Schroeder will publish a new one: The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n In the most recent issue of Parade<\/i> magazine (a Sunday newspaper supplement), Schroeder shares ten of Buffett’s “money-making secrets”<\/b>, which she gleaned during hundreds of hours of interviews for her book. Though Parade<\/i> has billed these as “10 ways to get rich”, I think they’re actually ten sensible ways to deal with life in general. Buffet advises:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31919],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n