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aspect of the gathering—Warren Buffett
alerting the crowd to the market’s
warning signs—wouldn’t be revealed
until the following year, when the dotcom
bubble burst, just as he said it
would.
Buffett takes pride not only in his
track record, but also in following his
own “inner scorecard.” He divides the
world into people who focus on their
own instincts and those who follow the
herd. “I feel like I’m on my back,” says
Buffett about his life as an investor,
“and there’s the Sistine Chapel, and I’m
painting away. I like it when people
say, ‘Gee, that’s a pretty good-looking
painting.’ But it’s my painting, and
when somebody says, ‘Why don’t you
use more red instead of blue?’ Goodbye.
It’s my painting. And I don’t care
what they sell it for. The painting itself
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