Acknowledgments

Many generous people helped in the preparation of this book. Thanks to Pam Buffett; Warren Buffett; Jolene Crowley; Elizabeth Douglass; San Diego Union-Tribune; Lorena Goeller; Arthur Q. Johnson; Steve Jorden; Omaha World-Herald; Irving Kahn, Kahn Brothers; Kathy Lowe; Bruce Marks; Charles T. Munger; The North Carolina Public Television Foundation and the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Doerthe Obert; Walter Schloss of Walter & Edwin Schloss; R. Hutchings Vernon; Kathy Welton; my editor, Kevin Commins; and my literary agent, Alice Fried Martell. Also, I am grateful to have been able to talk to Susan T. Buffett, Katharine Graham, and Sequoia fund founder William Ruane before their deaths.

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