How Warren Buffett got where he is

Posted on August 15, 2007
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The New York Times’ David Leonhardt reminds us of two Columbia professors named Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd, and their notion of ‘value investing.’Â Warren Buffett took their class, worked for their firm and then set out to make his billions using their notions. Leonhardt thinks investors today, by focusing on the long term, could do much better. I’ve never made any money short term in the market: buy and hold has been my only successful strategy…