One Thousand Ways to Make $1000

First published in 1936, One Thousand Ways to Make $1000 is
the long out-of-print book that Warren Buffett's biographers credit with
shaping the legendary investor's business acumen and giving him his trademark
appreciation of compound interest. After pulling a copy of One Thousand Ways
off a library shelf at age eleven and devouring F.C. Minaker's plucky and
practical business advice, Buffett declared that he would be a millionaire by
the time he was 35. Written in the immediate, conversational style of Dale
Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, this book is full of
inventive ideas on how to make money through excellent salesmanship, hard work,
and resourcefulness. While some of the ideas may seem quaint today-goat
dairying, manufacturing motor-driven chairs, and renting out billiard tables to
local establishments are among the money-making ideas presented- the underlying
fundamentals of business explained in these pages remain as solid as they were
over seventy years ago. Covering a wide spectrum of topics including investing,
marketing, merchandising, sales, customer relations, and raising money for
charity, One Thousand Ways to Make $1000 is both a durable, classic business
book and a fascinating portrait of determined entrepreneurship in Depression-era
America. Every effort has been made to reproduce the content exactly as it was
originally presented.