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Oct 5, 2026

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2014 Berkshire Hathaway 50th Anniversary Letter | Buffett Pours $6 Billion into Maintaining BNSF Railway

Oct 5 · 2 Mentions

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And the math in the report is just sobering.
speaker_1HOST
13:36
They calculate that those specific shares of Berkshire traded away for Dexter Shoe are now worth $5.7 billion.
speaker_0HOST
13:44
Wow.
speaker_1HOST
13:45
It irreparably destroyed shareholder value.

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speaker_1HOST
50:34
The massive investments they saw, understood, but simply didn't make.
speaker_0HOST
50:39
Right.
speaker_0HOST
50:39
Not the Dexter shoes or the Tesco disasters, which cost a few billion.
speaker_0HOST
50:43
Munger specifically cites their failure to buy Walmart stock early on, a business they understood perfectly.

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