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To anyone I’ve unintentionally hurt or upset.
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Tracy-Ann Oberman
Actor and writer
To my grandma Faye, because I didn’t realise, when I was growing up, what an icon she was. She fought at Cable Street, and worked her arse off to get the family out of the tenements. She had a lot of wisdom to impart.
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Actor and playwright
To anyone I’ve hurt unintentionally.
Ian Wright
English footballer and pundit
My ex-wife, because I should have been a better man.
Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
I've mentioned that we strongly prefer to use cash rather than Berkshire stock in acquisitions. A study of the record will tell you why: If you aggregate all of our stock-only mergers (excluding those we did with two affiliated companies, Diversified Retailing and Blue Chip Stamps), you will find that our shareholders are slightly worse off than they would have been had I not done the transactions. Though it hurts me to say it, when I've issued stock, I've cost you money.
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His letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in the 1997 annual report, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., February 1998
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