Stewart Horejsi & family

Net worth over time

Biography

• Stewart Horejsi began buying stock in Berkshire Hathaway for as little as $265 per share after reading John Train's "The Money Masters" in 1980.
• He attended annual meetings when they were fewer than a dozen people in folding chairs; now Berkshire's class A stock is one of the world's most valuable.
• After graduating from the University of Kansas in 1962, Horejsi returned home to Salina, Kansas to take over his family's welding supply company.
• He expanded the business, investing profits in Berkshire Hathaway stock, and has spent much of his life managing his family's money.
• Horejsi (pronounced hor-ish) still owns some Berkshire shares, but has also put hundreds of millions of dollars into his own closed-end mutual fund.
• Horejsi splits his time between homes in Arizona, Oregon and Barbados, where he purchased an 18th-century plantation home once owned by actress Claudette Colbert.

Financial assets