Legendary value investors' secrets
December 22, 2024
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The annual Fortune MPW interview (published on Oct 7, 2014) with the world’s most successful investor – Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSU3y0N60XU)
Read More about Warren Buffett investment strategyProfit performance measurement
In his 1977 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Warren Buffett said that “most companies define ‘record’ earnings as a new high in earnings per share”. This measure is not appropriate in Mr Buffett’s views. “Since businesses customarily add from year to year to their equity base, we find nothing particularly noteworthy in a management performance combining,…
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Warren Buffett said in his letter to shareholders in the 1977 annual report that Berkshire Hathaway selected marketable equity securities in much the same way it would evaluate a business for acquisition in its entirety. Warren Buffett said then: “We want the business to be (1) one that we can understand, (2) with favorable long-term…
Read More about How Warren Buffett picks marketable securitiesWho's Who
Warren Buffett (full name: Warren Edward Buffett) was born on August 30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha. Known to many as the Wizard of Omaha or the Oracle of Omaha or the Sage…
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