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The Oracle of Omaha gives KETV a tour of Berkshire Hathaway in 2012
Well, I’ve been in this building 50 years. They’ve moved me around *** little bit. History on the walls of legendary investor Warren Buffett’s office. I formed my first partnership in May of 1956, so this was *** year-end balance sheet which I typed myself. In fact, you’ll probably find *** few typos in it, and these are the partners I had at the time, and this was my father-in-law. That was my roommate in college. That was his mother. That’s my aunt Alice. That’s my sister Doris, and that’s her husband Truman. That was the gang. Yeah. If they, if they kept the $10,000 investment, and then when I liquidated the partnership, reinvested that in Berkshire Hathaway, uh, they would now have about, uh, uh, $500 million. I did very well with small amounts of money back in 1964 and when *** panic happens with *** really good company, I like to buy. Buffett’s MO for investing. This 1901 New York Times article reminds him daily of an important lesson. We never get out on *** limb rock. We always have lots of money. We never borrow *** lot of money. The first campaign I got really active in was when I was 10 years old in 1940 and Wilkie was running against Roosevelt. My dad thought that if Roosevelt got elected, that there’d never be another election. *** vocal Republican in his earlier years, Buffett now leans left and is *** big Obama supporter. We’re talking about the economy and I brought along some figures that I thought would be of interest to him, but that was when I got the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But he’s never had political ambitions like his father. That’s my dad’s campaign picture when he was 39 years old running for Congress the first time in 1942. This is my dad’s desk. This sat on his desk when I was *** kid, when I was 10 years old, and I always admired it. This is my favorite thing in your office. I need one of these, the too hard, too hard box, right. There’s *** lot of things that belong in there. The real problem is if they belong in there, and I don’t realize it. And then there are the fun things like the model Mars rover given to him by students at Caltech. That beats getting *** t-shirt and the mock Sports Illustrated cover. I think if they ever bring me out, it’ll be his Waterboy. No fancy flat screen TV, just an old tube. No, no computer. That means no email. Perhaps *** secret to Buffett’s success.
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The Oracle of Omaha gives KETV a tour of Berkshire Hathaway in 2012
History on the walls of legendary investor Warren Buffett’s office. Buffett gave KETV a tour of Berkshire Hathaway in 2012.”I formed my first partnership in May of 1956, so this was the year end balance sheet, which I typed up myself. In fact, there’s a few typos in it. And these are my partners I had at the time, and this was my father-in-law. That was my roommate in college. That was his mother. That’s Aunt Alice. That’s my sister Doris, and that’s her husband Truman. And that was the gang,” he explained. “If they kept the $10,000 investments, and then when I liquidated the partnership, reinvested that in Berkshire Hathaway, they would now have about $500 million.”See all the fun trinkets and history from the office of the Oracle of Omaha.More from the KETV Archives:Omaha welcomes over a dozen racehorses that flew in to compete at Aksarben in 1986In 1986, 18 racehorses, 13 of which would head to Aksarben, arrived in Omaha in style aboard a 727 plane.Omaha dog makes daily bank deposits for her owner’s pub in 1986In 1986, a local pub owner taught his dog Toby how to make the daily bank deposits.
History on the walls of legendary investor Warren Buffett’s office.
Buffett gave KETV a tour of Berkshire Hathaway in 2012.
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“I formed my first partnership in May of 1956, so this was the year end balance sheet, which I typed up myself. In fact, there’s a few typos in it. And these are my partners I had at the time, and this was my father-in-law. That was my roommate in college. That was his mother. That’s Aunt Alice. That’s my sister Doris, and that’s her husband Truman. And that was the gang,” he explained. “If they kept the $10,000 investments, and then when I liquidated the partnership, reinvested that in Berkshire Hathaway, they would now have about $500 million.”
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Omaha welcomes over a dozen racehorses that flew in to compete at Aksarben in 1986
In 1986, 18 racehorses, 13 of which would head to Aksarben, arrived in Omaha in style aboard a 727 plane.
Omaha dog makes daily bank deposits for her owner’s pub in 1986
In 1986, a local pub owner taught his dog Toby how to make the daily bank deposits.
