88 Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters— All of them! — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2019-09-08
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Product
“Businesses and industries with both substantial overcapacity and a commodity product, and he's gonna define a commodity product that's undifferentiated in any…”
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Focus
“Number three, he wanted decisions that maximize long-term results, seeking these from decision-makers who usually stayed long enough in place to bear…”
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People
“Most important of all, it enables us to attract and retain some extraordinary talented individuals, people who simply can't be hired in…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: people.
Persistence
“"You will recall that with heavy losses of the years nineteen fifty-seven and nineteen fifty-eight had, uh, had not been fully, uh…”
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Capital
“I'm focused on profit." So it says, "The emphasis, the emphasis continues to be on unwr- underwriting at a profit-" Rather than…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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