[If] Corporate America is serious about reforming itself, CEO pay remains the acid test, ... The results aren't encouraging. |
[In most boardrooms,] collegiality trumped independence, ... would be like belching at the dinner table. |
[In purchasing] zeros, ... a macro-based commitment such as this never has anything close to a 100 percent chance of being successful. |
[The point seems to be that Buffett thinks the United States needs to take radical steps, and undergo some pain in the short run, to ensure the longer-term health of the economy.] Perhaps there are other solutions that make more sense than mine, ... However, wishful thinking -- and its usual companion, thumb sucking -- is not among them. |
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. |
After careful consideration, the board decided that a change in management is in the best interest of the company's shareholders. |
An educational approach to money and investing struck me as a very good idea. People do form behavior habits very young on matters of money. I get calls every day from people who are in a financial hole. |
Berkshire Hathaway will sell you insurance, carpeting or any of our other products in exchange for options identical to those you grant yourselves. |
Berkshire's board has fully discussed each of the three CEO candidates and has unanimously agreed on the person who should succeed me if a replacement were needed today. |
Berkshire's board has fully discussed each of the three CEO candidates and has unanimously agreed on the person who should succeed me if a replacement were needed today. The directors know now - and will always know in the future - exactly what they will do when the need arises. |
Berkshire's board has fully discussed each of the three CEO candidates and has unanimously agreed on the person who should succeed me if a replacement were needed today. The directors know now and will always know in the future exactly what they will do when the need arises. |
Bill Gates and I kind of cooked it up together. We hope we could get a school program someplace, where the kids were taught the game and . . . develop a lot of competition between schools. |
Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's, |
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. |
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. |