Ever Quick with a Quip…

“That’s one of the best questions I’ve ever heard.”

— Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting , May 1, 2010 responding to a German shareholder thanking him for, through acquiring Burlington Northern, “taking the future of American railroads into your gifted hands.”

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“You have to call us Great Uncle.”

To a girl from Los Angeles who called Buffett and his business partner, Charlie Munger,  ‘Uncle’ because she said that is the custom for children to refer to their elders in India, where her parents come from. Her question centered on whether Berkshire Hathaway would invest more in India.