Buffett routinely declines invitations to speak to businesses and professional groups but has devoted an increasing amount of time to students in recent years. "I'm virtually a students-only talker," Buffett, 75, said Wednesday in an interview from his office. "If I talk to a bunch of 60-year-olds, they're not going to change. . . . It's the people I listened to when I was 20 or 25 who had an impact on what I have done."
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Free lunch for a college student is a huge score. But a group of Utah students dining in Nebraska this month found their company even more rewarding than the complimentary steak.
Warren Buffett, the "Oracle of Omaha," treated students from Brigham Young University and the University Venture Fund, primarily run by University of Utah students, to lunch at his favorite steakhouse and to some of his renowned pearls of wisdom.
"He's definitely a role model," said Brandon Blonquist, a senior in finance at the University of Utah. "Not only because of the success that he's had with investing in and managing businesses, but also because of the way he lives his life and maintains a perspective about what is really important."
One of the world's richest men, Buffett routinely declines invitations to speak to businesses and professional groups but has devoted an increasing amount of time to students in recent years.
When the 2005-06 school year closes in May, roughly 2,000 students from 35 schools will have visited Berkshire Hathaway headquarters to speak with Buffett. He typically spends two hours answering students' questions at his offices and then treats the students to lunch at Gorat's Steakhouse. He devotes about 20 days per year with student groups that make the trek to Omaha. A group of about 70 is coming from India in May.
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Free lunch for a college student is a huge score. But a group of Utah students dining in Nebraska this month found their company even more rewarding than the complimentary steak.
Warren Buffett, the "Oracle of Omaha," treated students from Brigham Young University and the University Venture Fund, primarily run by University of Utah students, to lunch at his favorite steakhouse and to some of his renowned pearls of wisdom.
"He's definitely a role model," said Brandon Blonquist, a senior in finance at the University of Utah. "Not only because of the success that he's had with investing in and managing businesses, but also because of the way he lives his life and maintains a perspective about what is really important."
One of the world's richest men, Buffett routinely declines invitations to speak to businesses and professional groups but has devoted an increasing amount of time to students in recent years.
When the 2005-06 school year closes in May, roughly 2,000 students from 35 schools will have visited Berkshire Hathaway headquarters to speak with Buffett. He typically spends two hours answering students' questions at his offices and then treats the students to lunch at Gorat's Steakhouse. He devotes about 20 days per year with student groups that make the trek to Omaha. A group of about 70 is coming from India in May.
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