Buffett announced in June that he would give away more than 80%, or about $37 billion, of his $44 billion fortune to five foundations in annual gifts of stock, starting in July 2006. The largest contribution will go to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Warren Buffett Timeline, Great Value Investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.
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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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