Warren Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1930, the son of U.S. congressman and businessman Howard Buffett. He bought his first stock as a boy, studied at the Wharton School and the University of Nebraska, and then at Columbia Business School, where he learned value investing from Benjamin Graham. He started Buffett Partnership in 1956 and later took control of the textile maker Berkshire Hathaway, which grew into one of the largest