Warren Buffett
Your $85 Billion Average Joe
Intro
Warren Buffett is the fourth richest man in he world. To McDonald’s, however, he’s just that guy that drives through each morning, willing to spend exactly $3.17 on his breakfast. A voiceover in his HBO documentary describes him as “your $44-billion average Joe.” Now, his net worth is more accurately estimated at $85.6 billion, however he pledges to give away 99% of his wealth to charitable causes. Warren Buffett is the world’s most successful investor, a feat that speaks to his excellent decision-making skills. His methods and practices―how he chooses which stocks to invest in, and when to buy and sell―have formed the basis of over 60 books and countless lectures and research papers, and gained a following around the globe.
Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130 IQ…Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
– Warren Buffett
About the Authors
Dan Pilat
Dan is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at The Decision Lab. He is a bestselling author of Intention - a book he wrote with Wiley on the mindful application of behavioral science in organizations. Dan has a background in organizational decision making, with a BComm in Decision & Information Systems from McGill University. He has worked on enterprise-level behavioral architecture at TD Securities and BMO Capital Markets, where he advised management on the implementation of systems processing billions of dollars per week. Driven by an appetite for the latest in technology, Dan created a course on business intelligence and lectured at McGill University, and has applied behavioral science to topics such as augmented and virtual reality.
Dr. Sekoul Krastev
Dr. Sekoul Krastev is a decision scientist and Co-Founder of The Decision Lab, one of the world's leading behavioral science consultancies. His team works with large organizations—Fortune 500 companies, governments, foundations and supernationals—to apply behavioral science and decision theory for social good. He holds a PhD in neuroscience from McGill University and is currently a visiting scholar at NYU. His work has been featured in academic journals as well as in The New York Times, Forbes, and Bloomberg. He is also the author of Intention (Wiley, 2024), a bestselling book on the science of human agency. Before founding The Decision Lab, he worked at the Boston Consulting Group and Google.
