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Berkshire Hathaway Part I

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Pinball Machines - Is That a Business?

Anolan bushnell was just ten years old when he started a pinball servicing business. He and his friend would pretend they weren't the guys in charge, that they worked for some bigger company. Warren found out that this was a business that if you get too powerful in it, then you start having to contend with the mafia. This is like me and bit coin in 20 15. If only I'd learnd these lessons at age 10,. Ah lewit, so i'd say the incident makes an impression on him. The irony is he would violate rules two, many times until he was about forty years old. But the third lesson he does learn: You can control other people's

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