#2021 Opening Speech #Talk about a Buffett gossip, see why Buffett separated from his original wife Buffett's first wife was called Susan, on April 10, 1952 Buffett and Susan married, when Susan was only 19 years old. After marriage, the Buffetts had two sons and a daughter, and when the children were still young, Susan was ostensibly a standard middle-class wife in a certain country. Every day she is presented in her iconic outfit.
The well-cut dress and shiny fluffy wig perfectly look after her husband and family. Become a leader of a community group and graciously entertain your husband's business partners. But in fact, in this marriage, Buffett, that is, stingy and unsentimental. Although Susan is the wife of a super-rich man, Buffett spends ninety-nine percent of his money on investments. You want to live in a mansion impossible! You want him to buy you an LV bag impossible!
If you want him to take you to the Maldives, he can take you to walmart supermarkets, which is a great gift. You want him to take you to the movie, he'll pick the cheapest spot at two o'clock in the morning, and you want an Australian lobster meal. He buys you at most a burger and a bottle of Coke. As a wife and mother, would you want a husband who earns ten million and only spends one hundred thousand for you, or a husband who makes half a million and spends four hundred thousand for you?
I believe most people will choose the latter. Buffett not only slammed the door but also didn't have time to spend time with her, even though Buffett loved Susan. But Buffett loves investing more, and all he really wants to do is invest. During the time his children were five to ten, a friend once described Susan as a single mother. Susan acts as a problem solver and an emotional refresher. She once said Buffett was her number one patient.
So Susan was married for more than twenty years and raised a son and a daughter. Still left Buffett, who is already worth hundreds of millions, to go to San Francisco to develop a singing career, the two sides separated but have not divorced. As for Buffett's later wife, Munch, It was Susan who introduced him to Buffett. Monks began living with Buffett in 1978, and Monks acted as Buffett's nanny. The three have maintained a delicate relationship.
It wasn't until 2006, two years after Susan's death, that Buffett and Munch, who had lived together for 28 years, officially married. All of this is the real Buffett. A person who does not live in the present but in his own investment world, so the world often only sees Buffett's success and ignores his attitude to investment, which has reached the point of madness. Although friends can learn Buffett's methods when making investments, they must balance investment and life.
You can't invest like a laoba, so that even your wife has run away. The purpose of comparing friends investment is to live a better life.
@Lucky Rainbow: For decades, behind Buffett's aura, there was still a silent standing man who was Charlie Munger. They knew each other when they were young and admired each other, and their values were highly aligned. Buffett once made no secret of it: Without Munger, I would be much poorer than I am now, and my gratitude to him is beyond words. They are partners in a life of equal wisdom. The difference is that Munger is very low-key, he does not care about focusing on the light, but on the way to the pursuit of life's wisdom.
Munger argues: If you become smart, you have to keep asking why? At the same time, it is necessary to link the answer to a deep, methodical theory. (This article is excerpted from "Buffett's Behind the Scenes: The Biography of Charlie Munger")