Testing brands, counting railcars, and watching 'Mary Poppins': how a young Warren Buffett found winning stocks [Yahoo! Finance]
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He spent weeks counting railcars, went to see "Mary Poppins," and tested the American Express brand. "Buffett's Early Investments" outlines how the investor vetted bosses and hunted down shares to buy. There's a common perception that Warren Buffett struck gold as a young investor by poring over long lists of stocks and scooping up the cheapest ones. But he went to far greater lengths to understand what he was buying before he pounced, a recent book points out. Author Brett Gardner details several examples of the Oracle of Omaha's dogged pursuit of information in "Buffett's Early Investments: A new investigation into the decades when Warren Buffett earned his best returns." The future billionaire and Berkshire Hathaway CEO skipped class to attend annual meetings or paid others to go and ask questions for him. He flew around the US to meet company executives and looked into their personal finances, habits, and motivations. During a 2010 interview, Buffett's biographer Alice
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