Warren Buffet on Charlie Rose

**vik589** Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:24 am

Warren Buffet on Charlie Rose
The charlie Rose show is doing a three episode special on warren buffett. I caught the last 10 minutes of the show last night, it was very interesting to hear buffett talk. He Comes accross as a very intelegent, down to earth and funny guy.

July 10, Monday - Warren Buffett: The Man
July 11, Tuesday - Warren Buffett: The Business
July 12, Wednesday - Warren Buffett: The Gift

here is the links to the charlie rose website

http://www.charlierose.com/

Incase you missed last nights show here is the link to google videos

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6701318343299922276&q=Warren+Buffett

**blast_investor** Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:28 am

Watched yesterday's show. Excellent. Charlie Rose replayed lots of past interviews with Buffett.

**jinbai** Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:55 am

Really, really like this guy.

**vik589** Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:32 am

Here is another link to google videos. This one is for the round-table Charlie had with Bill gates, Melinda gates and Warren buffett a day after Warren announced his 34B dollar gift to the gates foundation.
Another good interview.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=515260011274566220&q=charlie+rose+melinda+gates

**blast_investor** Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:56 am

Buffett also admitted in yesterday's show that when he started his partnership (hedge fund) 50 years ago, the money was not big, around $100k from family and relatives, which is probably around $500,000 in today's number adjusting for inflation.

Even in 70's , Buffett's networth was only several millions, not that much.

Now he is worth hundreds of billions, amazing.

**vik589** Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:10 pm

I guess things really changed for him after he went into the insurance bussiness. As he mentioned in the interview that gave him the money upfront to invest in other oppurtunities....and it does'nt hurt if you are already an expert at spoting bargains. He also mentioned that he has a lot harder time nowadays to find any bargains.....back when he ran his patnership he had 100's of candidates and he could then pick the cream of the crop. I wonder if we will ever see such a market again?

**zdplus** Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:13 am

Just wanted to post links here and found u guys already finished
that :)

I am not quite sure if it's due to the changing of the market
of due to bershire's current size. I think the main reason is
Bershire is much bigger.

/zdplus

vik589 wrote: I guess things really changed for him after he went into the insurance bussiness. As he mentioned in the interview that gave him the money upfront to invest in other oppurtunities....and it does'nt hurt if you are already an expert at spoting bargains. He also mentioned that he has a lot harder time nowadays to find any bargains.....back when he ran his patnership he had 100's of candidates and he could then pick the cream of the crop. I wonder if we will ever see such a market again?

**blast_investor** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:16 pm

Size is main issue for Buffett. His size is too big.

On the other hand, the market we are now in is not as cheap as his time 50 years ago.

I certainly don't see that much interesting picks right now. Most of time, I spent hours studying the "attractive" picks, and came out empty handed.

zdplus wrote: Just wanted to post links here and found u guys already finished
that :)

I am not quite sure if it's due to the changing of the market
of due to bershire's current size. I think the main reason is
Bershire is much bigger.

/zdplus