Things You May Not Know About Warren Buffett
August 19, 2008 – 10:15 pm by BHA great thing about the ukulele is how easy it is to learn, said Warren Buffett, the Berkshire Hathaway chairman, who started playing in college. “You can learn how to play it very quickly, even if only badly, as in my case,” he wrote in an e-mail message. “It takes only 15 minutes to actually learn how to play simple songs. You can sing along with it and carry it around easily.”
The secret to his success, no doubt. From the NYT. The rest of the article is about the resurgence of the ukulele. The uke does have some drawbacks however:
There is, Mr. Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway noted, one drawback to the ukulele that he learned early, something that might give someone pause before picking it up. “I thought it would impress girls,” he wrote, “but no such luck.”
