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People (176)
Warren Buffett 117 Charlie Munger 114 Greg Abel 34 Howard Buffett 17 Bill Gates 11 Jack Ringwalt 10 Ajit Jain 10 Phil Liesche 7 Ken Chace 6 Ben Graham 6 Susan Buffett 5 Walter Scott Jr. 5 Andy Heyward 5 Kenneth V. Chace 4 Eugene Abegg 4 Don Keough 4 Walter Scott 4 Tom Murphy 4 Susan T. Buffett 4 Carrie Sova 4 George Young 3 Bob Kline 3 John Ringwalt 3 Gene Abegg 3 Chuck Huggins 3 Stan Lipsey 3 Ralph Schey 3 Bill Scott 3 Becky Quick 3 Andrew Ross Sorkin 3 Marc Hamburg 3 Warren E. Buffett 3 Harry Bottle 3 Ron Olson 3 Malcolm G. Chace Jr. 2 Ralph Rigby 2 Lou Simpson 2 Ted Williams 2 Rod Eldred 2 Brad Kinstler 2 John Holland 2 Ed Bridge 2 Jon Bridge 2 Susan Jacques 2 Carol Loomis 2 John D. Rockefeller 2 Todd Combs 2 Ted Weschler 2 David Sokol 2 John Harding 2 Ben Rosner 2 Howard G. Buffett 2 Walter Cronkite 2 Kelly Muchemore 2 Susie Buffett 2 Susan Decker 2 Steve Burke 2 Seabury Stanton 1 Harold V. Banks 1 John K. Stanton 1 Richard Bowen 1 Stanford Lipsey 1 Victor Raab 1 Vic Raab 1 Robert H. Bird 1 Chet Noble 1 Roland Miller 1 Bill Lyons 1 Jim Stodolka 1 Milt Thornton 1 George 1 Floyd Taylor 1 Mike Goldberg 1 Phil Graham 1 Jack Byrne 1 Roberto Goizueta 1 Carl Sagan 1 Jack Nicklaus 1 Arnold Palmer 1 David Ogilvy 1 Kay Graham 1 Bill Snyder 1 Dick Simmons 1 Peter Lynch 1 Mrs. B Blumkin 1 Carl Reichardt 1 Thomas J. Watson Sr. 1 Frank Rooney 1 John Burr Williams 1 Jeff Comment 1 Don Wurster 1 John Kizer 1 Tony Nicely 1 George Pataki 1 Dave Sokol 1 Seymour Lichtenstein 1 Jerry Kamiel 1 Bill Child 1 Cathy Baron Tamraz 1 Ron Blumkin 1 Irv Blumkin 1 Mae West 1 Scott Hymas 1 Bruce Whitman 1 Rich Santulli 1 Grady Rosier 1 Denis Abrams 1 Jim Issler 1 John Gainor 1 Frank Ptak 1 Ariel Hsing 1 Bob Hamman 1 Ron Peltier 1 Adam Smith 1 Sy Foguel 1 Paul Volcker 1 Mary See 1 Leo Goodwin 1 Lillian Goodwin 1 Joe Brandon 1 Pete Liegl 1 Vicki Hollub 1 Horatio Hathaway 1 Hetty Green 1 Alice R. Buffett 1 Charles E. Peterson, Jr. 1 Elisabeth B. Peterson 1 Doris B. Wood 1 Truman S. Wood 1 Daniel J. Monen, Jr. 1 William H. Thompson 1 Fred Brown 1 Bill 1 Joseph 1 Noah 1 William Scott 1 John M. Harding 1 James H. Lorie 1 Herman Hickman 1 Bertrand Russell 1 Fred Stanback Jr. 1 Stan Perimeter 1 Bill Ruane 1 Walter Scott Junior 1 Malcolm Chace III 1 Philip Carret 1 Malcolm Chase III 1 Walter Schloss 1 Kim Chace 1 Ronald L. Olson 1 Malcolm G. Chace 1 Marc D. Hamburg 1 Forrest Krutter 1 Susan Lucci 1 Jimmy Buffett 1 Doris Buffett 1 Bernie Ebbers 1 Kenny Lay 1 Bob Iger 1 Peter Kaufman 1 Suze Buffett 1 Michael Eisner 1 Sandy Gottesman 1 Brad Underwood 1 Don Graham 1 Tad Montross 1 Jamie Dimon 1 Paul Anka 1 Bernardo Hees 1 John Landis 1 Tom Murphy Jr. 1 Melissa Shapiro Shapiro 1 Elon Musk 1 Tim Cook 1 Steve Jobs 1 Melissa Shapiro 1
Companies (213)
Berkshire Hathaway 119 Coca-Cola 37 GEICO 21 Blue Chip Stamps 12 See's Candies 12 American Express 9 National Indemnity Company 8 Nebraska Furniture Mart 8 Diversified Retailing Company 7 Washington Post 7 Gillette 7 National Indemnity 6 Wells Fargo 6 S&P 500 6 Deloitte and Touche 6 Capital Cities/ABC 5 Clayton Homes 5 BNSF 5 Berkshire Hathaway Energy 5 See's Candy 5 Massachusetts Investors Trust 5 Scott & Fetzer 4 General Re 4 Investors Stock Fund 4 The Washington Post Company 3 IBM 3 Fruit of the Loom 3 Marmon 3 Lubrizol 3 Apple 3 Dow Jones 3 General Motors 3 Tri-Continental Corporation 3 National Fire and Marine Insurance Company 2 Cornhusker Casualty Company 2 Wesco Financial 2 Associated Retail Stores 2 Buffalo News 2 GEICO Corporation 2 See's 2 General Dynamics 2 Gen Re 2 Ben Bridge 2 R.C. Willey 2 FlightSafety 2 Johns Manville 2 MiTek 2 Iscar 2 MidAmerican 2 HomeServices 2 Walmart 2 Dairy Queen 2 Borsheims 2 CNBC 2 Fortune 2 MidAmerican Energy 2 Kraft Heinz 2 Dempster 2 Dempster Mill Manufacturing 2 DuPont 2 Diversified Retailing 2 Associated Cotton Shops 2 Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Rockford 2 Cap Cities/ABC 2 Merck 2 Deloitte & Touche 2 Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. 1 Textile Workers Union of America 1 National Fire & Marine Insurance Company 1 Sun Newspapers, Inc. 1 Blacker Printing Company, Inc. 1 Illinois National Bank & Trust 1 Home & Automobile Insurance Company 1 Illinois National Bank & Trust Company 1 Home and Automobile Insurance Company 1 Illinois Bank and Trust Co. 1 See's Candy Shops 1 Waumbec Mills 1 Illinois National Bank and Trust 1 SAFECO 1 American Broadcasting Companies 1 Amerada Hess 1 General Foods 1 Government Employees Insurance Company 1 Kaiser Industries 1 Illinois National Bank 1 Cornhusker Insurance 1 Lakeland Fire and Casualty Company 1 Cypress Insurance Company 1 Kansas Fire and Casualty 1 Wesco Financial Corporation 1 World Book 1 Shell 1 Ogilvy & Mather 1 Lear-Siegler 1 Unilever 1 Chesebrough-Ponds 1 Fireman's Fund 1 Omaha Sun 1 Salomon Inc 1 USAir 1 Capital Cities 1 H.H. Brown 1 Executive Jet 1 FlightSafety International 1 Walt Disney Company 1 Helzberg Diamonds 1 R.C. Willey Home Furnishings 1 General Re Securities 1 MidAmerican Energy Holdings 1 Garan 1 Wal-Mart 1 Shaw Industries 1 Acme Brick 1 Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Company 1 NetJets 1 Value Capital 1 McLane 1 Benjamin Moore 1 Union Tank Car 1 Procor 1 XTRA 1 CORT 1 Fox & Roach 1 Prudential 1 Real Living 1 Acme 1 Shaw 1 Northern Natural Gas 1 Apple Inc. 1 American Express Company 1 Bank of America Corporation 1 Wells Fargo & Company 1 GUARD Insurance Group 1 Duracell 1 Alleghany Corporation 1 Forest River 1 Amazon 1 Occidental Petroleum 1 Itochu 1 Marubeni 1 Mitsubishi 1 Mitsui 1 Sumitomo 1 BNSF Railway 1 Bank of America 1 Chevron 1 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 1 Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates Inc. 1 Hathaway Manufacturing Co. 1 Valley Falls Co. 1 Greylock Mills 1 Buffett Associates, Ltd. 1 Sanborn Map Company 1 Commonwealth Trust Co. 1 First National Bank of Omaha 1 Tri-Continental Corp. 1 U.S. Steel 1 Fidelity Capital Fund 1 Putnam Growth Fund 1 Wellington Equity Fund 1 Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company 1 Xerox 1 Fairchild Camera 1 National Video 1 Lehman Corporation 1 Buffett Partnership Ltd. 1 Standard Oil of New Jersey 1 Sears Roebuck 1 Hochschild Kohn & Co. 1 Sun Newspapers 1 Sperry & Hutchinson 1 Hochschild, Kohn & Company 1 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 1 PNC 1 SunTrust 1 Illinois National Bank and Trust of Rockford 1 Wesco 1 Microsoft 1 Pfizer 1 General Electric 1 Bristol-Myers 1 Vanguard 1 All My Children 1 World Book Encyclopedia 1 Enron 1 Royal Dutch Shell 1 Exxon 1 DiC Productions 1 DiC Entertainment 1 Disney 1 CBS News 1 The Walt Disney Company 1 Gorat's 1 State Farm 1 Allstate 1 New York Times 1 Swiss Re 1 Goldman Sachs 1 JP Morgan 1 General Reinsurance 1 Costco 1 PepsiCo 1 JPMorgan Chase 1 Heinz 1 Moody's 1 Mars 1 Berkshire Specialty 1 Burlington 1 Union Pacific 1 Tesla 1 Home Services of America 1 Brooks 1
Concepts (71)
capital allocation 123 intrinsic value 107 circle of competence 100 margin of safety 96 owner earnings 93 book value 83 float 56 retained earnings 42 moat 13 return on equity 8 operating earnings 7 Mr. Market 6 underwriting profit 5 working capital 2 competitive moat 2 economic moat 2 business franchise 2 look-through earnings 2 market share 2 undervalued securities 2 work-outs 2 workouts 2 cost reduction 1 diversification 1 financial condition 1 acquisitions 1 net worth per share 1 cyclical business 1 underwriting profitability 1 underwriting profits 1 mark-to-market 1 return on capital 1 profit margin 1 capital intensity 1 tangible net worth 1 stockholders equity 1 balance sheet 1 work-out 1 performance measurement 1 controls 1 quantitative investing 1 qualitative investing 1 workout 1 controlled companies 1 tax-exempt bonds 1 yield curve 1 interest rates 1 callable bonds 1 bond maturity 1 quotational fluctuation 1 passive management 1 after-tax returns 1 capital investment returns 1 financial leverage 1 basket approach 1 index fund 1 corporate culture 1 integrity 1 long-term perspective 1 brand 1 underwriting discipline 1 culture 1 stock buybacks 1 durable competitive advantage 1 inflation 1 organic growth 1 brand value 1 capital investment 1 capital gains 1 shareholder returns 1 buybacks 1