Buffett, 90, and Munger, 97, will give me all I can handle tomorrow. My game plan is to channel my inner Bill Walton using obscure references early in the first half. That will cause inexperienced investors to avoid my thread. Then I mix in a few jokes. finance.yahoo.com/brklivestream/
One luxury I have in doing BRK play-by-play is no paid subscribers, advertising or content marketing. If I want to channel Bill Walton and tell jokes, I can. Of course, if I did have paid subscribers, sold advertising or peddled merch, I might still channel Walton and tell jokes.
"The reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, ‘My god, they’re purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?’ And he said, ‘Mister, I don’t sell to fish.’”
"We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It’s a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who’s rich and you ask, ‘How can I become like you, except faster?'l
You don’t want to be the man who had many people at his funeral, but they were there just to make sure he was dead. Or the guy who, at his funeral, the priest said, ‘Won’t anyone stand up and say anything nice about the deceased?’ and finally someone said, ‘His brother was worse'
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