According to his partner, Charlie Munger, Buffett has the following attributes: – mental aptitude – Intense interest, and from a very early age –
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Buffett, intelligence
Berkshire Hathaway chief and investor extraordinaire Warren Buffett said in a 1999 interview with Business Week, “Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ once
frequent stock trading
all that trading can be hazardous to your wealth, as University of California, Berkeley professors Brad Barber and Terrance Odean put it in their
Afghan development, pro and con
As commerce and construction boomed, Kabul became a city of scams. Unscupulous Afghans set up “non profit” agencies as a way to siphon aid
modeling
modeling, all great models will tell you, is hard work. Of course, the hard work comes after you’ve won the genetic lottery, and after
Dean Karnazes, ultra marathoner
once ran 100 miles to the starting line of a marathon; ran 135 miles through Death Valley; ran 262 miles “out of body experiences,
foreign work on Freedom Tower
Freedom Tower The All-American Freedom Tower, part of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, showing Amerian resilience in the face of foreign terrorism:
profits vs wages
For each dollar pulled in by business, about 6 cents is after tax profit, and about 60 cents is wages. in 2002 national income,
Brian Williams, as a volunteer firefighter in his young days
I’ve found the secret of life to be body placement. During a work study job at Catholic University , I met Pope John Paul
Rob Thomas, lead singer of Matchbox Twenty Am I cool?
Am I cool? Well, that all depends on you you’re talking to. I’ve sold millions of records, but I don’t think that makes me