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Buffett Wants to Hold Wholly Owned Companies Indefinitely
Warren Buffett wants to be known as holding wholly owned companies indefinitely. He says that most business owners spend the better part of their lifetimes building their businesses. A lot of business people would rather sell to someone like Buffett who let the managers do their job and don't intend to ever sell the business.
On today’s episode, Clay reviews Warren Buffett’s shareholder letters and shares his takeaways, and distills some of the biggest lessons he learned. If you asked a lot of value investors, they would tell you that reading Buffett’s letters is equivalent to an MBA on value investing and business. Buffett has a lot to teach us as investors as he has grown the value of Berkshire shares by over 3,600,000% since he took control of the business in 1965.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00 - Intro
07:44 - What Berkshire’s “Big Four” businesses are.
13:16 - What Buffett looks for when investing in a business and what he looks for in a management team.
14:19 - Why Buffett loves share repurchases and why they give me further vindication that a stock is cheap.
18:28 - Why it pays to treat your colleagues and shareholders like partners.
24:49 - Why industries with constant change should be avoided by investors.
28:36 - How Buffett views cash and leverage in his capital allocation strategy.
49:28 - What Buffett looks for when selecting him and Charlie’s successors.
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