A portrait of a man with a talent for making money the old-fashioned way shows how practicing the values of quality, decency, and simplicity helped him to build the Berkshire Hathaway investment company into a multibillion-dollar empire
Andrew Kilpatrick is a 1965 graduate of Washington & Lee University. He served in the Peace Corps in India for two years, earned a master's degree in English from the University of Vermont & was a U.S. Navy officer for three years. His 20-year career with newspapers in Birmingham included eight years as a business reporter. He is a stockbroker with Prudential Securities in Birmingham.