REVIEW: THE SNOWBALL. By Alfonso Cerro

THE SNOWBALL: Warren Buffet and the business of life

This book has been published by Bloombury Publising. I don’t know exactly how many hours I spent reading it, but probably one hour and a half each day for three months, more o less. (140 hours)

I decided to read the book because I wanted to know how one person can make and empire from a company created in a room of a house.

It’s a biography about Warren Buffet (one of the most important investors in the world) written by Alice Schroeder.

The plot is about the youth of Warren Buffet and how he did to make an empire only investing in companies. It starts with Warren as a preteen in his city ,Omaha in USA, and tells how he started his passion with money and companies.

At university, he read the books at the start of the course and did not need to study any more.  When he ended the degree he went to New York to work with a famous business man. But when this man got retired he started his own company.

The book is a set of rules about how to successful in life, not only in business. Warren style is to be always gentle and honorable. Warren life is only about his company and money and he was always working when he was young. Nowadays he relax playing bridge.

To summarize, Warren worked so many hours that his company has become one of the most important companies of the world.

I really like the story because I want to be an entrepreneur too, and Warren has a lot of humanitarian ideas (he has left half his fortune to charity).

You should read this book if you like entrepreneurship and business, but it gives a lot of advise about life too. It’s really amazing how Warren has got everything he has.