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1997-Morning Session-BRK Annual Shareholders Meeting

Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meetings (since 1994)

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The Problem With the Berkshire Hathaway Compensation System

Some people as they rise in American corporations to at a certain point of power gaining and wealth gaining they start exercising extreme restraint as a sort of moral duty. I would argue that the Berkshire Hathaway compensation system considering with the people at the top already have it would be better if we saw a little more of it. A few years ago there's no question any manager would say that stock options are a form of compensation or expense but corporate chieftains didn't want them counted because they felt that it might restrict their use. That sort of behavior by corporate chieftain when they are in there you know arguing that the black is white in order to feather their own nests and maybe create little higher

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