Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — Celebrating 50 Years of a Profitable Partnership (2nd edition)
Summary
The reference has not verified this book in detail; the summary states only what the title, author and subject establish.
This is a compilation volume marking fifty years of Berkshire Hathaway under Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, assembled around the 2015 anniversary. The reference has not verified this particular edition's contents, its editor or its publisher.
What the title and occasion establish is that it collects material relating to the Buffett and Munger partnership at Berkshire from 1965 onward. The 2014 annual report, published in early 2015, contained the definitive fiftieth anniversary material: Buffett's essay on the past and future of Berkshire and Munger's separate essay on what he called the Berkshire system, which is the most direct statement either has made about why the company worked. That material is available without charge from Berkshire's own website.
Readers wanting the primary sources should use the annual letters, which Berkshire publishes free, and Cunningham's edited Essays of Warren Buffett, which organises the letters by topic. Lawrence Cunningham's Berkshire Beyond Buffett examines the subsidiaries and the culture. This compilation should be checked against those before being relied on, since the reference cannot confirm what it contains or who assembled it.
Key takeaways 5
- The volume marks fifty years of Berkshire Hathaway under Buffett and Munger from 1965.
- The definitive fiftieth anniversary material is the pair of essays by Buffett and Munger in the 2014 annual report, available free from Berkshire.
- Munger's essay on the Berkshire system is the most direct statement either partner has made about why the structure worked.
- Primary sources including the annual letters are published without charge by the company itself.
- The reference has not verified this compilation's contents, editor or publisher.
Who should read it
Readers should use Berkshire's own published letters and Cunningham's edited Essays instead, since this compilation's contents are unverified here.
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