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PostPosted: Mon, Feb 20 2006, 10:36 am EST    Post subject: An Off-the-Cuff Interview with Warren Buffet

An Off-the-Cuff Interview with Warren Buffet
February 2006
By Michael Lissauer

MVL: Business Wire is not the first acquisition you made based upon a letter (Forest River, for instance). How many such inquiries do you get on a weekly basis?

WB: I get relatively few inquiries such as I received from Forest River and Business Wire. That is because I list our very specific acquisition criteria in our annual report and ask people only to contact me when all criteria are met. If I didn't publish these, I would literally be inundated by thousands of inquiries a year. I still get a few proposals each week that come nowhere near meeting our criteria.

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