Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics -
General, language: English, abstract: Warren Buffet, the architect and
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway is one of the world's most successful
investors with unique investment principles and management culture. He
is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist ranked the
world's richest man in 2008 with an estimated net worth of $62 billion.
Over the past 37 years, Buffet has consistently grown Berkshire's market
value at an annual compound growth rate of over 25%, an almost
impossible feat. Putting into perspective the consequences of such
sustained compound growth rate for long periods, an investment of
$10,000 with the company when Buffet took charge would translate more
than $40 million today. Buffet's unique principle and approach of value
investing where he indentifies undervalued companies with good potential
for future growth by analyzing their financial statements, makes him
perhaps the most successful stock market investor of the past three
decades.