
2015-Afternoon Session-BRK Annual Shareholders Meeting
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meetings (since 1994)
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The Chinese Found the Way to Unleash Their Potential
When I was a little boy, 80% of the population of China was illiterate and mired in subsistence poverty and agriculture. And just look at what's been accomplished. It does show you the human potential when you find a system that unleashes it. The United States went with those 4 million people close to 25% of the world's GDP for more than 200 years. They're not working harder now than they were 40 years ago. But remember that on balance, we're both better off if the other one's doing well.
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