I picked up this gem at the Berkshire meeting a few months ago. O'Brien worked on this book for five years. The quotes below are a few of my favorites. But the portraits make it the single best investment “coffee table book” ever produced. The image of Buffett on the rooftop of his office, for example, now resides in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian.
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Irving Kahn: “Considering the downside is the single most important thing an investor must do. This task must be dealt with before any consideration can be made for gains. The problem is that people nowadays think they're pretty smart because they can do something quite rapidly. You...
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