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A clear-eyed profile of Warren Buffett’s career, temperament, and the habits that made patience a competitive advantage.
Source: The New Yorker / longform profile (add link later)
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VALUE INVESTING
Peter Doobell
Investor and writer focused on Warren Buffett, long-term thinking and value investing.
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Value investing, long-term compounding, economic moats, capital allocation, investor psychology, Berkshire Hathaway
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“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
Source: Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters / Buffett quote
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HIGHLIGHT
Buffett’s real advantage may be inactivity: waiting for the rare moment when the odds are overwhelmingly in his favor.
Source: Financial Times / investing essay (add link later)
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“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”
Source: Buffett quote / public remarks
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NOTE
Moats, managers, and margin of safety
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How decentralization, trust-based incentives, and long holding periods turned a textile mill into one of the greatest capital allocators in history.
Source: Harvard Business Review (add link later)
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“Our favorite holding period is forever.”
Source: Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters
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