Notes

1. Ellyn Spragins, “Building a Company Warren Buffett Would Buy,” Fortune Small Business, February 1, 2003.

2. Jennifer Reingold, “The Ballad of Clayton Homes,” Fast Company, January 2004.

3. Joseph Calandro, Jr., “Taking Clayton Homes Private,” Journal of Private Equity, Vol. 13, no. 3, 2010.

4. Barnett C. Helzberg, Jr., What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2003).

5. Natalie Doss, “Buffett Poised to Win Bet on U.S. with Burlington,” Bloomberg News, February 29, 2012.

6. Ibid.

7. Rana Foroohar, “Warren Buffett Is on a Radical Track,” Time, January 23, 2012.

8. Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, (New York: Bantam Books, 2009), p. 424.

9. Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: ...

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