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#warren-buffett

Warren Buffett started delivering The Washington Post and the Washington Star at 13, earning $175 a month by 14. He noted, 'You learn a lot about human nature when you deliver papers.' This experience taught him valuable lessons about business and customer relations.

"Greatness does not come about through accumulating great amounts of money, great amounts of publicity or great power in government," Buffett wrote in his final Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter.

My managerial model is Eddie Bennett, who was a batboy. In 1919, at age 19, Eddie began his work with the Chicago White Sox, who that year went to the World Series. The next year, Eddie switched to the Brooklyn Dodgers, and they, too, won their league title. Our hero, however, smelled trouble. Changing boroughs, he joined the Yankees in 1921, and they promptly won their first pennant in history.

Kalshi is taking a page from Warren Buffett's playbook by offering a $1 billion prize to any user who has the perfect March Madness bracket, despite the odds being 1 in 120.2 billion.

The investment thesis fits Buffett's lens precisely. The Times possesses an irreplaceable brand moat with 175 years of history, digital subscription revenues growing 14% annually, and gross margins stabilized around 48%, demonstrating the pricing power he has always prized in media. NYT has also diversified intelligently. Wordle became a cultural phenomenon. The Athletic acquisition brought the world's largest sports journalism operation into the fold. Cooking offers 25,000+ vetted recipes. This is a portfolio of habit-forming content products anchoring daily routines for millions.

In his final quarter as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway ( NYSE: BRK-B), Warren Buffett reallocated his technology holdings. In the process, he sold 75% of his Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) position, according to Bloomberg. He has held the stock since 2019. Buffett also reduced his investment in Apple ( NASDAQ: AAPL | AAPL Price Prediction), a move he has made for several quarters. Like many of the world's largest investors, Buffett does not always provide a rationale for buying or selling a stock.

That said, when looking at truly world-class investors with exposure to single-stock names, I thought I'd look for one non-Magnificent-7 stock I think may be intriguing for investors to consider. I think I have it. I'm going to discuss why Costco ( NASDAQ:COST) appears to be so widely-owned in the world of wealthy investors, and why this stock may also be perfect for a small retail investor as well right now.

Warren Buffett is to investing what Einstein was to physics, Edison was to invention, and Mozart was to music. There will never be another one like him, and you should pity anyone who says they aspire to be "the next Warren Buffett." Whenever I hear someone talk about "the next Warren Buffett," I think of Antonio Salieri, Mozart's inferior rival, played brilliantly by F. Murray Abraham in the movie Amadeus.