2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting (Full Version)

Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting (May 5, 2018)
Video combines Morning session & Afternoon session.

[jatildon]

4:25:57 Warren talks about importance of having great teachers in life and flaws being taught in business schools and acknowledges Charlie being a great teacher to him. He further adds to get comfortable with accounting but says investing does not require high level IQ to succeed.

[raimondasmarciulevicius]

Together

Warren together with Charlie, thank you for a good lesson.
I am one step closer to become a millionaire. It is my childhood's dream.

[JenPurple]

12:56 WB’s first investment
14:15 $10, 000 invested in American businesses since 1940s

[jatildon]

2:54:00 A shareholder asks "Charlie The Boss" if he would be using mathematical formula to determine intrinsic value of a company in question to which "Charlie The Boss" gives perfect and soothing reply.

[SeenaAbedi]

3:06:00 American Express made a decision not to bid as low as Mastercard to retain the Costco business.

Warren thinks American Express made the right decision.

Charlie thinks it was a mistake.

[SeenaAbedi]

2:43:52 Becky asks Warren if he believes the United States is more divided today than 50 years ago or that it's just social media and media in general that blows the divide out of proportion.

[maalikserebryakov]

Warren’s response to the microsoft question was *extremely* suspect, shifty and awkward.

[SeenaAbedi]

2:49:33 “There’s a tendency to think our present politicians are much worse than any we had in the past but we tend to forget how awful our politicians were in the past. I can remember a prominent senator arguing with an absolute earnestness that mediocre people ought to have more representation on the United States Supreme Court.”

[jatildon]

4:29:15 Charlie has piece of advice for young investors.

[SeenaAbedi]

2:19:00 Elon Musk questions Warren Buffett regarding moats and Charlie responds in a Charlie manner.

[maalikserebryakov]

3:09:10
I can almost imagine charlie telling her to get to the point.

[maalikserebryakov]

2:54:15
They look so nonplussed and bored with that paragraph of bootlicking.
😂😂😂😂 chads

[SeenaAbedi]

2:41:17 Warren is asked why he never purchased Microsoft

[jhoee]

5:20:26 how to waterboard people with your issue, so we all hate it.