By April 2006, his total gain on these contracts was over $2 billion.
Warren Buffett Timeline, Great Value Investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
2002: (72 years old) Buffett entered in $11 billion worth of forward contracts to deliver US dollars against other currencies.
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- 2007: (76 Years old) Buffett looking for a younger...
- 2006: (75 years old) give away more than 80%, or a...
- 2002: (72 years old) Buffett entered in $11 billio...
- 1988: (58 years old) Buffett began buying stock in...
- Buffett begins buying stock in Coca-Cola, eventual...
- 1986: Berkshire breaks $3,000 per share.
- 1985: Buffett purchases Scott &
- 1987: In the immediate crash and aftermath of Octo...
- 1986: Berkshire breaks $3,000 per share.
- 1985: Buffett purchases Scott & Fetzer for Berkshi...
- 1985: Warren helps orchestrate the merger between ...
- 1985: Buffett finally shuts down the Berkshire tex...
- 1983: Buffett purchases Nebraska Furniture Mart fo...
- 1983: Berkshire ends the year with $1.3 billion in...
- 1981: Munger and Buffett create the Berkshire Char...
- 1979: Berkshire began the year trading at $775 per...
- 1979: (49 years old) Berkshire begins to acquire s...
- 1979: Berkshire trades at $290 per share. Warren's...
- 1978: Susie introduces Warren to Astrid, who event...
- 1977: Susie leaves Warren, although not officially...
- 1977: Berkshire indirectly purchases the Buffalo E...
- 1974: The SEC opens a formal investigation into Wa...
- 1974: Due to falling stock prices, the value of Be...
- 1973: (43 years old) Berkshire began to acquire st...
- 1973: Berkshire begins to acquire stock in the Was...
- 1973: Stock prices begin to drop; Warren is euphor...
- 1971: Warren [at his wife's request], purchases a ...
- 1970: (40 years old) As chairman of Berkshire Hath...
- 1970: Berkshire makes $45,000 from textile operati...
- 1970: Warren now owns 29% of the stock outstanding...
- 1969: (39 years old) Buffett liquidated the partne...
- 1969: Buffett created Berkshire Hathaway, after sh...
- 1967: Berkshire Hathaway acquires National Indemni...
- 1967: American Express hits over $180 per share, m...
- 1967: Buffett is worth, personally, more than $10 ...
- 1967: His partnership is now worth $65 million.
- 1967: Berkshire pays out its first and only divide...
- 1966: Warren's personal investment in the partners...
- 1965: Buffett arranges a business coup - taking co...
- 1965: The American Express shares which were purch...
- 1965: Buffett begins to purchase shares in Walt Di...
- 1965: Warren's father, Howard, dies.
- 1964: Due to a fraud scandal, American Express sha...
- 1963: The Buffett partnerships becomes the largest...
- 1963: Buffett sells Dempster for 3x the amount he ...
- 1962: Warren discovers a textile manufacturing fir...
- 1962: Buffett consults Munger on Dempster, the win...
- 1962: The Buffett Partnership, which had begun wit...
- 1962: Buffett merges all partnerships into one par...
- 1961: (31 years old) Buffett made his first $1 mil...
- 1960: (30 years old) Buffett asks one of his partn...
- 1959: (29 years old) Buffett had six partnerships ...
- 1959: Warren is introduced to Charlie Munger, who ...
- 1958: (28 years old) Buffett had five partnerships...
- 1958: The third year of the partnership completed,...
- 1957: With Susan about to have her third child.
- 1957: Adds two more partnerships to his collection.
- 1956 : Established Buffett Associates, Ltd., his f...
- 1951 : obtained a Master's degree in economics
- 1947 : graduated from Washington, DC's Woodrow Wil...
- 1930 :Warren Buffett born August 30, 1930, Omaha, ...
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