Warren Buffett: No Such Thing As Too Much Gravy

We’re obvi­ous­ly huge fans of War­ren Buf­fet­t’s style of val­ue invest­ing and the per­for­mance of Berk­shire Hath­away over the last fifty years. Tony’s been talk­ing to me about Buf­fett for many years, and he even bought a share in Berk­shire sev­er­al years ago so he could attend one of their AGMs in Oma­ha.

If you don’t know much about Buf­fett, here’s a good, lengthy arti­cle about his impend­ing 90th birth­day which also goes into his invest­ing his­to­ry and friend­ships with peo­ple like Bill Gates. 

War­ren’s secret to a good life:

Buffett’s life phi­los­o­phy of food, health and hap­pi­ness was prob­a­bly best summed up by a quip he made dur­ing a fam­i­ly hol­i­day din­ner last year, words recent­ly recalled by daugh­ter Susie. “You can nev­er have too much love,” her father said, “or too much gravy.”

I also enjoyed this arti­cle about Buf­fett, with anec­dotes from AirBNB founder Bri­an Cheskey”

Chesky gained a sim­i­lar insight at a pre­vi­ous lunch with Buf­fett and Ama­zon CEO Jeff Bezos. “Nobody wants to get rich slow,” Buf­fett replied when Bezos asked why every­one does­n’t just copy his long-term invest­ing approach.

Dax Sha­pard also had Bill Gates on his pod­cast recent­ly and Bill talked about his friend­ship with War­ren, which was fun to lis­ten to.