Alice Schroeder
American financial analyst and writer; Berkshire Hathaway's leading insurance analyst at Morgan Stanley, then Warren Buffett's authorised biographer, author of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (2008).
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Their wordsI think that nobody expects what they are going to see on paper when they hand over to an author the unfettered task or responsibility to write about their life.
↗Interview With Alice Schroeder: Buffett's Cold Shoulder (The Motley Fool)fool.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsOn the other hand, if you are investing in your education and you are learning, you should do that as early as you possibly can, because then it will have time to compound over the longest period.
↗Interview With Alice Schroeder: Buffett's Cold Shoulder (The Motley Fool)fool.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsSo instead of learning something that might become obsolete tomorrow, like some particular type of software [that no one even uses two years later], choose things that will make you smarter in 10 or 20 years. That lesson is something I use all the time now.
↗Interview With Alice Schroeder: Buffett's Cold Shoulder (The Motley Fool)fool.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsNow everybody has access to everything, and so the diligent are no longer really rewarded the way they used to be.
↗Interview With Alice Schroeder: Buffett's Biggest Weakness (The Motley Fool)fool.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Buffett's biggest weakness is the flipside of his strength: he is rigid and does not really listen
Their wordsHis biggest weakness is the flipside of his strength. He is pretty rigid and he doesn't really listen.
↗Interview With Alice Schroeder: Buffett's Biggest Weakness (The Motley Fool)fool.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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The biggest business misconception about Buffett is that he is a buy-and-hold-forever investor
Their wordsOn the business side, I think the biggest misconception about him is that he is a "buy and hold forever investor." He has never said that, but people take little snippets and slices of things that he said, and they turn them into mantras or slogans.
↗Interview With Alice Schroeder: One Big Misconception About Buffett (The Motley Fool)fool.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI do believe that people succeed based on a balance of their own efforts and their circumstances, but I think he is right to emphasize the circumstances here, because he was very fortunate.
↗Interview With Alice Schroeder: One Big Misconception About Buffett (The Motley Fool)fool.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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