I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably when I know I have the wrong chief executive running the business, and I keep on waiting to make the difficult decision of replacing him.
I'm a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks.
I don't know anything about a stock!
I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.
Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.
Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.
I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.
I haven't changed any of my investments since I've been in the Senate and haven't purchased any stocks since I've been in the Senate.
Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.