Top 25 Market Movers
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Warren Buffett
Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
America's best-known and often-imitated investor studied under legendary investor Benjamin Graham at Columbia Business School in the 1950s, where he learned the basics of investing: to look at stocks as businesses, seek out companies with competitive advantages, and use the market's fluctuations to your advantage.
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"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful."
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Bio
Date of Birth: 8/30/1930
Hometown: Omaha, Nebraska
Education: B.S. in economics, University of Nebraska; M.S. in Economics, Columbia University
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In 2006, Buffett announced plans to posthumously donate the vast majority of his fortune to charity, 83 percent of which will go to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.