Warren Edward Buffett

            Warren Edward Buffett adalah seorang pengusaha Amerika Serikat yang diakui sebagai salah satu investor tersukses di dunia. Ia berhasil mengumpulkan kekayaan yang berlimpah berkat kemampuan dan kepandaiannya dalam berinvestasi melalui perusahaan konglomerasi (holding company) Berkshire Hathaway. Karena keahliannnya tersebut, ia mendapat berbagai julukan seperti "Wizard of Omaha", "Oracle of Omaha", atau "Sage of Omaha".

            Pria kelahiran 30 Agustus 1930 ini berkuliah di Wharton Business School di University of Pennsylvania selama dua tahun, yaitu dari tahun 1947 hingga 1949. Di tahun 1950, ia menempuh pendidikan di University of Nebraska–Lincoln dan berhasil lulus di bidang administrasi bisnis. Ia kemudian melanjutkan pendidikannya di Benjamin Grahamdi Columbia University setelah ia tahu bahwa Benjamin Graham dan David Dodd yang merupakan analis keuangan terkemuka kala itu mengajar di sana. Buffett lulus dari Columbia University pada tahun 1951 dengan meraih gelar Master of Science di bidang ekonomi. Setelah ia lulus, ia bekerja di perusahaan ayahnya, Buffett-Falk & Co. di Omaha dari tahun 1951 hingga 1954. Ia kemudian bekerja di Graham-Newman Corp. di New York yang merupakan perusahaan milik Benjamin Graham, mantan profesornya di Columbia Business School sebagai analis sekuritas selama dua tahun (1954–1956). Lalu, di tahun 1956–1969, Buffett bekerja sebagai mitra umum di Buffett Partnership, Ltd., Omaha. Selanjutnya ia menduduki jabatan sebagai Ketua dan CEO Berkshire Hathaway Inc. di Omaha dari tahun 1970 sampai sekarang.

            Selain dikenal sebagai investor kakap, Buffett juga dikenal sebagai seorang filantropis. Di tahun 2006 ia menyumbangkan hampir 85% kekayaannya kepada beberapa yayasan amal yang salah satunya adalah Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation yang dimiliki oleh Bill Gates. Di tahun-tahun selanjutnya, ia juga kerap terlibat dalam berbagai kegiatan amal. Pada tahun 2011, Buffett menerima Presidential Medal of Freedom, penghargaan tertinggi bagi rakyat sipil di Amerika Serikat, yang diserahkan langsung oleh Presiden Barrack Obama atas aksi filantropi yang dilakukannya sepanjang tahun.

            Berkat kesuksesannya di bidang investasi, majalah Forbes menempatkan Warren Buffett di urutan pertama dalam daftar Orang Terkaya di Dunia tahun 2008 dengan total kekayaan sebesar US$ 62 milyar. Saat itu ia mampu menggeser posisi Bill Gates, pendiri Microsoft, yang selama 13 tahun berturut-turut selalu berada di posisi puncak. Di tahun 2012, Buffett juga kembali masuk dalam daftar tersebut, hanya saja kali ini ia berada di peringkat ketiga dengan kekayaan sebesar US$ 44 milyar. Jumlah asetnya turun sebanyak US$ 6 milyar akibat turunnya nilai saham Berkshire sebesar 7%. 

sumber : http://profil.merdeka.com/mancanegara/w/warren-buffett/

tugas softskill bhs inggris bisnis 2

1.              What Is a Verb?

What is a verb? Songs, poems and language teachers throughout history have attempted to explain verbs to us. A verb is an action word, Luv Is a Verb, Everything’s a Verb, where does it end? The concept of verbs is sort of a tricky one to grasp, and then once you do, verbs only get more confusing.

Defining a Verb

A brilliant professor once said that “a verb is a word that does verb-y things.” He said the same thing about nouns (they do noun-y things) and other parts of speech as well, and while it’s not a very concrete or satisfying definition, it’s probably the best one out there.

You see, the way English works is that every word sits in a specific place and plays a specific role in a sentence. And even though a word might not really even be a real word, if it’s playing the role of the verb, then it’s a verb. Look at these examples:

·         As I phlomoggled my yard, I accidentally shallimped two birds.

·         Jack pazotors as often as he can.

·         They couldn’t believe she had never chorstined before.

·         This time next week, we’ll be forrisking through the jungle!

If you speak English fairly well, you can identify the verbs in those sentences even though they aren’t real words. You can do this because they are doing verb-y things. They have -ing, -ed and -s endings depending on when they happen and who is doing them. They also follow the subjects of the sentences and appear next to adverbs. And even though we don’t know what they mean, they somehow convey action. They behave like verbs.

2.         What Is a Modifer ?

A modifier is an optional element in phrase structure or clause structure.A modifier is so called because it is said to modify (change the meaning of) another element in the structure, on which it is dependent. Typically the modifier can be removed without affecting the grammar of the sentence. For example, in the English sentence This is a red ball, the adjective red is a modifier, modifying the noun ball. Removal of the modifier would leave This is a ball, which is grammatically correct and equivalent in structure to the original sentence.

Other terms used with a similar meaning are qualifier (the word qualify may be used in the same way as modify in this context), attribute, and adjunct. These concepts are often distinguished from complements and arguments, which may also be considered dependent on another element, but are considered an indispensable part of the structure. For example, in His face became red, the word red might be called a complement or argument of became, rather than a modifier or adjunct, since it cannot be omitted from the sentence.

3.              Make a Setence

A sentence is a group of words which starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!). A sentence contains or implies a predicate and a subject.Sentences contain clauses.Simple sentences have one clause.Compound sentences and complex sentences have two or more clauses.

Sentences can contain subjects and objects.The subject in a sentence is generally the person or thing carrying out an action. The object in a sentence is involved in an action but does not carry it out, the object comes after the verb.For example:

The boy climbed a tree.

If you want to say more about the subject (the boy) or the object (the tree), you can add an adjective.For example:

The young boy climbed a tall tree.

If you want to say more about how he climbed the tree you can use an adverb.

For example:

The young boy quickly climbed a tall tree.

The sentence becomes more interesting as it gives the reader or listener more information.

sumber : http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/verbs/what-is-a-verb.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_modifier
http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/sentencetext.html