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   Warren Buffett

   Buffett favors the inheritance tax, saying that repealing it would be like "choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the eldest sons of the gold-medal winners in the 2000 Olympics". ... From a NY Times article: "I don't believe in dynastic wealth," [Warren Buffett] said, calling those who grow up in wealthy circumstances "members of the lucky sperm club."
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   Benjamin Graham

   According to Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham said that he wished every day to do something foolish, something creative, and something generous. Warren Buffett said that Graham excelled most at the last.
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   The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville

   The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville is an article by Warren Buffett promoting value investing, published in the Fall, 1984 issue of Hermes, Columbia Business School magazine. ... Buffett then proceeds to present nine successful investment funds.
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   Paulson financial rescue plan

   Warren Buffett said he wholehearedly supported the plan. ... ↑ "Stocks Surge as U.S. Acts to Shore Up Money Funds and Limits Short Selling" article by Graham Bowley in The New York Times September 19, 2008
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   William J. Ruane

   Ruane met Warren Buffett at an investment seminar with value investing guru Benjamin Graham and he and Buffett became lifelong friends. Buffett advised associates to invest with Ruane after he had closed out his initial partnership as they both employed Graham's value investing techniques.
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   Value investing

   A better way to investigate the performance of a group of value investors was suggested by Warren Buffett, in his May 17, 1984 speech that was published as The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville. ... During about a 25-year period (1965-90), published research and articles in leading journals of the value ilk were few.
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   Peter Buffett

   Howard Graham Buffett (brother) Warren Buffett (father)
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   Berkshire Hathaway

   As Buffett said in his 1995 shareholder letter: ... Current members of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway are: Howard Graham Buffett, Warren Buffett, Susan Decker, Bill Gates, David Gottesman, Charlotte Guyman, Donald Keough, Charlie Munger, Thomas S. Murphy, Ronald Olson, and Walter Scott Jr.
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   Howard Graham Buffett

   Howard Graham Buffett (born December 16, 1954) is the elder son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
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    Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008

    Obama's economic advisors include chief Austan Goolsbee, who has worked with him since his U.S. Senate campaign, Paul Volcker, Warren Buffett, health economist David Cutler and Jeffrey Leibman. ... Noting he had not chosen his words well, Obama subsequently explained his remarks, "Lately there has been a little typical sort of political flare-up, because I said something that everybody knows is true, which is that there are a whole bunch of folks in small towns in Pennsylvania, in towns right here in Indiana, in my hometown in Illinois, who are bitter."

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• Warren Buffett,
• Benjamin Graham,
• The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville,
• Paulson financial rescue plan,
• William J. Ruane,
• Value investing,
• Peter Buffett,
• Berkshire Hathaway,
• Howard Graham Buffett,
• Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008