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   Warren Buffett

   In a letter to shareholders, Buffett announced that he was looking for a younger successor, or perhaps successors, to run his investment business. ... 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

   Graham wrote that the owner of equity stocks should regard them first and foremost as conferring part ownership of a business. ... Warren Buffett said that Graham excelled most at the last.
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   Berkshire Hathaway

   Warren Buffett is the company's chairman and CEO. ... As Buffett said in his 1995 shareholder letter:
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   Value investing

   In his book, "The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger," Bud Labitan asserts that Buffett and Munger invented an effective Behavioral Finance formula that is underappreciated by the business and academic communities. ... Warren Buffett once commented, "You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you taught that the world was flat."
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   Paulson financial rescue plan

   The Bush administration draft of legislation, in section eight, proposes that actions of the Treasury under the act "are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." ... Warren Buffett said he wholehearedly supported the plan.
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   The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

   “Even people who don’t care a whit about business will be intrigued by this portrait… ... Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life story.
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   Sam Nunn

   He also served on the Intelligence and Small Business Committees. ... In an interview with CNBC on August 22, 2008, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said that he favored Nunn as Obama's choice for Vice President.
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   Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

   Investor Warren Buffett says he could put in $10B plus $90B nonrecourse debt; that is, without having to repay beyond $10B if mortgages did not repay. ... During the legislative session, at the conclusion of the vote, the presiding chair declared the measure, HR3997, to be unfinished business.
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   Undervalued stock

   Warren Buffett, also known as "The Oracle of Omaha," stated that the value of a business is the sum of the cash flows over the life of the business discounted at an appropriate interest rate.
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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.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Warren Buffett,
• Benjamin Graham,
• Berkshire Hathaway,
• Value investing,
• Paulson financial rescue plan,
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life,
• Sam Nunn,
• Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,
• Undervalued stock,
• The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville