CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: THE PARTNERSHIP YEARS (1957–1968)

  1   1958: Sanborn Map Company

  2   1961: Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company

  3   1964: Texas National Petroleum Company

  4   1964: American Express

  5   1965: Berkshire Hathaway

PART II: THE MIDDLE YEARS (1968–1990)

  6   1967: National Indemnity Company

  7   1972: See’s Candies

  8   1973: The Washington Post

  9    1976: GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company)

10   1977: The Buffalo Evening News

11   1983: Nebraska Furniture Mart

12   1985: Capital Cities/ABC

13   1987: Salomon Inc.—Preferred Stock Investments

14   1988: Coca-Cola

PART III: THE LATE YEARS (1990–2014)

15   1989: US Air Group

16   1990: Wells Fargo

17   1998: General Re

18   1999: MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company

19   2007–2009: Burlington Northern

20   2011: IBM

PART IV: LESSONS LEARNED

21   Evolution of Buffett’s Investment Strategy

22   What We Can Learn from Buffett

Appendix A

Appendix B

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index