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Happy Father's Day
2022-06-19 20:00Father is almost one of the most important people in everyone's life. In the past, we used to say "father's love is like a mountain", but now there are people on the Internet who joke that "it is better to have a good father if you learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well". Is this really the case?
today is father's day, so let's take a look at how Warren Buffett is a dad.
Warren Buffett is notoriously frugal despite being worth more than $100 billion. He still lives in the house he bought in 1958 for $31,500, not a mansion; he eats only $3.89 McDonald's for breakfast; he never spends money on designer suits...
You know, Warren Buffett has been rich since he was 16 years old, but this frugal habit is also deeply embedded in his parenting philosophy. After the birth of the first child, he did not buy a baby crib, but converted the drawer of the dresser into a baby crib; when the second child was born, the baby crib was also borrowed.
When his son Howard asked him to buy a car, Buffett did not agree, but asked his son to give up three years of birthday gifts, a Christmas gift and a high school graduation gift before agreeing to sponsor his son to buy Franco Elvitt, and Howard himself came up with $2,500.
It's not that he is digging the search, but that he refuses to use money to drive children's minds. In an interview, he said: "The last thing in education is to use money to induce children's behavior. I tell my children that they don't need to read University, you don't have to become a doctor or a lawyer... I hope they can use their talents to make the greatest contribution to the society, in any form."
Compared with how much money they have, he puts more emphasis on children finding their own social value. Howard could not find the direction of his life when he was a child. He dropped out of three universities. Buffett did not blame him for it. He even sent him an offer and invited Howard to work as a bulldozer driver in his company, See's Candies. Now, Howard is a successful farmer, field photographer and writer.