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A wistful farewell to Warren Buffett’s annual letters
It’s an interesting time for Buffett to step aside, both as an executive and a public intellectual.
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The key, for Mr Warren Buffett, was to make sure you did your homework and had a firm grasp on the intrinsic value of your would-be investments.
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Jonathan Levin
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Innovation and influence are very distinct phenomena.
Bob Dylan, for instance, didn’t invent folk music: he borrowed extensively from Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and others in the folk revival movement of the fifties and sixties, yet he became far more influential than any of them.
