Warren Buffett may have a fortune of $ 106.8 billion and the title of the 8th richest man on earth, but he is famous for his simple life and oligarchic philosophy. For 40 years he has been paid just $ 100,000 a year by Berkshire Hathaway.
But where he does not make discounts is the issue of security. Berkshire has been paying an average of $ 339,000 a year in recent years for his personal safety and the security of his home.
The reason is that two men had tried to kidnap Buffett in 1987 to demand ransom, with the result that the billionaire has given great importance to the issue of security ever since.
It was in the mid-1980s that Buffett’s smart stock investments and successful business deals began to pay off. According to Alice Schroeder in “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life”, the big investor first entered the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans in 1985, when he was one of the only 14 billionaires on the list.
Now the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway was in the limelight, something that criminals were quick to notice. Two men, armed with fake 45mm, appeared at Buffett’s office in Omaha in 1987.
Their plan was to kidnap the billionaire and demand $ 100,000 from his safe, which equates to $ 245,000 in current money.
But the building’s guards and police thwarted their plans.
Buffett was shocked and rejected the idea of ​​moving around with a bodyguard, but installed a security camera and a heavy metal door in his office.
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