Schwartz, Mattathias

The Church of Warren Buffett

January 2010

"Only one mind remained independent, humming along on its own steam."

What Buffett had done was sit in a room and think. Like most drudge work, thinking is an undertaking that Americans would rather subcontract to someone else. But the public was having trouble finding someone to think on its behalf about the recent crisis. It was too big, too unprecedented. Events had confounded the consensus and herded the mavericks into committee. Only one mind remained independent, humming along on its own steam. "He's in the business of thinking the unthinkable," is how R.J. liked to put it.
(p. 28)

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Reading

Schwartz, Mattathias. "The Church of Warren Buffett." Harper's Magazine. 320.1916. (Jan. 2010): pp. 27-35. <Link to Harper's Online>

12/30/2009