TA P DA NC I NG T O WOR K ‘When you finish this book, you will have seen the arc of Warren’s business life. ‘The first story in which we ever mentioned him was in 1966. He got one sentence in an investing piece, and I misspelled “Buffett”. I will try,...
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TA P DA NC I NG T O WOR K ‘When you finish this book, you will have seen the arc of Warren’s business life. ‘The first story in which we ever mentioned him was in 1966. He got one sentence in an investing piece, and I misspelled “Buffett”. I will try, however weakly, to pardon myself for that by saying that outside Omaha (where a few investors knew Warren well because he was making them rich) he was pretty much unknown. ‘Jump to the early 1980s, and he hadn’t gained much ground. When Fortune hired freelancer Andrew Tobias in 1983 to write a piece about Buffett’s shareholder letters, Tobias had never heard of this fellow. ‘The middle part of the book, starting with my 1988 profi le “The Inside Story of Warren Buffett”, describes his adding a second profession, business management, to his old one of investor. Next, of course, he made Berkshire Hathaway a huge force in corporate America. In 1965, when Warren took it over, Berkshire was a New England textile manufacturer far too small to h
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