Berkshire Hathaway director Chris Davis: "People matter a lot more than is generally realized. We have a society that believes in equality and is very quick to figure that the people who did well got lucky."
"They don't have the same feeling about basketball. Nobody looks at LeBron and thinks, 'I could do that.'"
"It is amazing what a difference one person can make at a business."
"There is a risk of hero worship, but I hate the opposite more. I hate this proclivity we have to tear down people who have built incredible businesses that employ tens or hundreds of thousands of people that provide services that delight their customers — and then we want to vilify their success. It's crazy."
A former analyst sent me this blurb for our morning note. It made me laugh out loud.
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Me and Cody Cambell Starting Double Eagle VIII at 90$ BBl so we can donate 359 Trillion Dollars to Texas Tech Football . ( I’m the autistic deaf kid to the left ) .