Wisdom from the Sage of Omaha

A choice collection of Buffettisms from the first ever Berkshire Hathaway shareholders' meeting telecast live: I did decide fairly early in my life that my favourite employer was myself. When running a public company, you do waste your time on quite a bit of stuff that isn't productive. The nature of capitalism is that if you've got a good business, somebody's always trying to figure out how to take it away from you and improve on it. Generally, if you take care of your customer, your customer takes care of you. You don't want to get envious of somebody who's won the lottery or bought an IPO that went up. You have to figure out what makes sense and follow your own course. (On the business o

This article was originally published on May 02, 2016.