Loyalty. Humility. Patience. These are just some of the key personality traits possessed by the world’s most successful
investor, Warren Buffett, according to Melbourne author and investor Nic Liberman.
The search for the secrets behind Buffett’s seemingly preternatural
ability to attract wealth has spawned countless newspaper articles, TV programs,
websites, even annual conferences, but Being Warren Buffett is the first book to examine the full spectrum of Buffett’s personality traits and the unique
way they coalesce in the cheerful billionaire.
He is at once frugal and greedy, in ways we least expect. He is free of envy and narcissism,
which might be considered unlikely in his
line of work.
Liberman has identified these qualities through an analysis of
Buffett’s extensive writings and, in this
series of short essays, muses on the
way fourteen particular traits
manifest themselves in Buffett’s behaviour - and how they contribute to his bottom line.
Ultimately, Liberman concludes, Buffett’s ‘secret’ is a happy (and lucky) mix of psychological characteristics
that combine to create the perfect mindset for making money.
Importantly, there is a lesson here for us all; that, in the
end, this ‘secret’ is available to everyone who is willing to pursue the perfect
marriage of personality and profession.
Part-philosophical reflection on Buffett-as-man, part-investigation into the mechanics of what fuels his enormous capacity to accumulate wealth, Being Warren Buffett is a unique
book that will challenge everything you thought you knew about investing and ask you to
delve deep into your own psyche, to question
your own motivations, along the way.
