Warren Buffett's Ground Rules by Jeremy C. Miller Summary
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Before Warren Buffett became a billionaire, he wrote letters revealing his investment secrets. Discover the "Ground Rules" that turned $105,000 into $100 million - strategies so powerful that Charlie Munger called compounding interest almost "religious" in its wealth-building magic.
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Before the Billions: A Young Man's Blueprint
In 1956, a 25-year-old returned to Omaha with something more valuable than money - a set of principles that would transform American investing. Warren Buffett had just declined his mentor Benjamin Graham's job offer and instead gathered seven people at the Omaha Club: his father, sister, aunt, college roommate, and a few friends. Before accepting their $105,000, he handed them a document outlining his "Ground Rules." No one knew these principles would generate nearly 24% annual returns for thirteen years without a single down year. Bill Gates would later call these partnership letters "the most important investment documents ever written." What made them so powerful? They weren't complex formulas or insider secrets. They were timeless truths about human behavior, market psychology, and the mathematics of wealth - truths that remain as relevant today as they were in that Omaha dining room decades ago.
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