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‘Baby Berkshire’ CEO says it is all right to be a ‘boring’ investor
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Mr Thomas Gayner, chief executive of the Markel Group, says his path to success has been more about incrementalism than stand-out, dramatic moves.
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For Mr Thomas Gayner, chief executive officer of the insurance and investment firm Markel Group, successful investing isn’t so much a sprint as a long, hard slog.
Think about it this way, he says. If you were in a 100m race with eight-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt, all bets would be on the Jamaican sprinter, who would surely win. Same if it were a 200m contest.