German Newspaper Profiles Charlie Munger

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*Note Article is in German and translated via Google translate

Introduction (Via Financial Times Germany)
Every investor knows Warren Buffett, but few of his partner Charlie Munger. Wrongly: The 85-year-old earned billions in the stock market.  Odd, highly intelligent and quirky rude – the portrait of a loner.

The most useless computers in the world is in Charlie Munger office in Los Angeles: It is never turned on. The stock market veteran prefer to read newspapers or books. And when he writes an e-mail, he dictated to his secretary Doerthe Obert the wording. But even more, he phoned his friends Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway ), Bill Gates ( Microsoft ), Bill Gates (Microsoft ) oder Jack Welch (ehemals General Electric). ) Or Jack Welch (former General Electric). Gern schaut er auch aus dem 34. He also likes looking out the 34th Floor of the building, sees to aircraft landing at Los Angeles International Airport and is doing what he does prefer to think:

For Munger has really much to say. As a friend, business partner and mentor, he contributed decisively to the meteoric rise of the oracle of Omaha. An employment contract does not exist, although since 1978, Munger is vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. The book value of the holding company grew by an annual average of more than 20 percent, while the S & P 500 only grew nearly nine percent. “Besides my father, no one has influenced me so much like Charlie,” Buffett says. For some observers such as David Nierenberg, pension fund managers from the U.S. state of Washington, Munger is even more important than his famous alter ego: “He’s the most brilliant investors in the country.”

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