A Warren Buffet Picture Is Fetching Over $30,000 on Ebay

Excessive-price auctions for an opportunity to get a chunk of billionaire Warren Buffett are nothing new — the Berkshire Hathaway chairman famously auctions off a one-on-one lunch with himself yearly for thousands and thousands, with the profitable bidder’s cash going to charitable causes.

Now Buffett is attempting his hand at one other type of public sale within the digital sphere.

A signed picture of Buffett is being auctioned off through eBay. Created by Motiva artwork, the piece options a few of Buffett’s most memorable quotes overlaid on a traditional portrait of the billionaire.

In white, six phrases “girls make me optimistic about America” stand out. The proceeds from the public sale will go on to Women Inc., a nonprofit group in Buffett’s native Omaha, Nebraska, which offers instructional and leisure programming (from robotic constructing to train to public talking) to underserved ladies within the Omaha space from ages 5 via 18.

The public sale, which started on August 20, will shut on Tuesday, August 30, the day of Buffett’s 92nd birthday.

Buffett has famously signed the Giving Pledge, an settlement wherein the world’s wealthiest pledge to present away nearly all of their wealth by the top of their lifetime.

The so-called “Oracle of Omaha” has pledged to present away an astounding 99% of his wealth to charitable initiatives, primarily via Berkshire Hathaway inventory.

“What I can do, nonetheless, is to take a pile of Berkshire Hathaway inventory certificates — ‘declare checks’ that when transformed to money can command far-ranging assets—and commit them to learn others who, via the luck of the draw, have acquired the brief straws in life,” Buffett penned in a letter. “Nothing will go to endowments; I need the cash spent on present wants.”

This previous June, Buffett’s lunch public sale introduced in a document $19 million for GLIDE, a charity primarily based in San Francisco that goals to help these affected by poverty and homelessness. It was the primary public sale of Buffett’s since 2019 on account of COVID restrictions.

“I’ve met lots of fascinating individuals from everywhere in the world,” Buffett stated of his annual initiative. “The one common attribute is that they really feel the cash goes to be put to excellent makes use of.”

As of Wednesday afternoon, Buffett’s portrait public sale had already fetched $32,000 in bidding.