Buffett U of FL talk

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A bit long. It was a talk Buffett gave to MBA students at the Business school at University of Florida, in 1998 (10 years ago). But I promise it’s both fun and educational 🙂

Chinese translation (中文)
English (PDF) (24 pages).

Google Video (88 minutes) original link here.

He talked about “chewing gum business” in the talk (address to question: What makes a company something that you like).

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