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David Rosenthal: evaluation

21 Apr 2021 Acquired Berkshire Hathaway Part I

“I think that’s the difference between Warren and most normal people, too, is that money in the future probably has about the same utility to him because it’s not about what he can buy with the money.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Claim type
evaluation
Recorded
21 Apr 2021
Publisher
Acquired

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…And just to come back and say it so we all have a firm understanding here, if you took that $1000 and you want to invest it for 70 years, say getting at 10% per year return on it—which would be good, that would be a very good return, I think it’s a little bit outpacing public markets—that’s $800,000 70 years from now. Seventy years from now, my money has a lot less utility to me than it does today because I will have not had it my whole life, which is the curse, but if you’re Warren and all you’re seeing all the time is that money in the future, my gosh. I think that’s the difference between Warren and most normal people, too, is that money in the future probably has about the same utility to him because it’s not about what he can buy with the money. It’s just about the stack of money. Yup. For Warren it is a score board game, not a utility of the cash game.…

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