Warren Buffett

"I think maybe Bill Gates and I should start a men's clothing store and sell the suits made by Madame Li," he said in the video. "I think we would be great salesmen because we love them so much." "Warren Buffett chooses Trands suits like he chooses stocks," she said. "He knows we have a bright future ahead."

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"There's no story behind Warren's first name. His parents just liked it," says Alice Schroeder, author of Buffett biography The Snowball.

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"I'm more of a Warren Buffett approach there are good times in business and bad times," says Brennan. "But this one just came like a tsunami we were so busy we didn't see it coming."

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"I wouldn't be a No. 2 to Warren Buffett," he said, hammering the point home. If working under the greatest investor of our time at Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) isn't enough to sway him, it's just not going to happen anywhere. "I don't want to run another large media company,"

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"Our recovery is dependent on hard working small business owners across America who will create the jobs that America needs," said Berkshire Hathaway /quotes/comstock/13*!brk.a/quotes/nls/brk.a (BRK.A 103,600, +500.00, +0.48%) /quotes/comstock/13*!brk.b/quotes/nls/brk.b (BRK.B 3,455, +24.97, +0.73%) CEO Buffett. "I'm proud to be a part of this innovative program which provides greater access to know-how and capital -- two ingredients critical to success,"

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But as Buffett once said: "If you gave me $100 billion and said, 'Take away the soft-drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world,' I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done."

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"Sometimes people lack basic business skills, like accounting," said Mr. Buffett, who bought a major stake in Goldman last year. "This is a way to step on the accelerator a little bit. Maybe more than a little bit."

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"Our recovery is dependent on hard working small business owners across America who will create the jobs that America needs," Buffett said. "I'm proud to be a part of this innovative program which provides greater access to know-how and capital - two ingredients critical to success."

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Referring to the recent purchase of a railroad by the investor Warren Buffett, he said, "What does it tell you that the world's most successful investor is investing in trains?"

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"Our businesses, they've bottomed ... (there are) very few upticks," said Buffett, the world's second richest man, in response to Rose's question about whether the "economic panic" is over.

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