What do you give the man who could buy anything for Christmas? The man who still lives in the same modest Omaha home he bought in 1958, prefers McDonald's over five-star dining, and has said time and again that more possessions don't make him any happier. That man is Warren Buffett — the billionaire behind Berkshire Hathaway and a master of investing in businesses that make money the old-fashioned way.
For Mary Buffett, his former daughter-in-law, this wasn't a theoretical question. When she married his son Peter in 1980, she suddenly found herself in a position no gift guide could solve. It was their first Christmas as newlyweds, and she needed a present for the Oracle of Omaha. Her solution? Numbers.
