Showing posts with label Buffett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buffett. Show all posts

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Warren Buffett's Four Tips for Closing the Deal

Small businesses have limited resources and every decision is crucial. You need to know when to jump on an opportunity and when it’s too good to be true. And no one knows how to do this better than uber businessman Warren Buffett.

In the book “How To Close A Deal Like Warren Buffett,” authors Tom Searcy and Henry Devries examine Buffett’s decision-making traits to see what he looks for when closing deals.

“Warren is famous for doing enormous deals with as little information as a few pages of business plans and the standard financials that a company would submit to a bank in order to qualify for a loan,” Searcy and Devries write, adding that business leaders can use this set of principles and effective strategies to gain “explosive, major growth” for their own businesses. Here are four ways to follow Buffett’s lead when it comes to closing deals for your own company.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

How To Be Ready When the Next Big Opportunity Comes Along

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Will you be ready when the next big deal comes along? When it comes to negotiations, being prepared is far more valuable than having a big checkbook--just ask Warren Buffett.

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Monday, February 13, 2012

WARREN BUFFETT: The Investment You Think Is 'Safe' Is Actually The Riskiest In The World

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Warren Buffett has published a preview of his annual letter in Fortune.

In the preview, he does one of the many things he does best: Explains basic investing concepts and history in a way that no one else can.

In the first section of the article, for example, Buffett explains why most investors' concepts of "risk" and "safety" are completely bass-ackwards.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Tech-shy Buffett accumulates $10-billion position in IBM

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Superstar investor Warren Buffett has purchased a 5.5-per cent stake in International Business Machines Corp. Momentarily setting aside his traditional distaste for technology stocks.

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Monday, November 14, 2011

Warren Buffett Likes IBM's Tune, Becomes Its Biggest Shareholder -

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Warren Buffett, the legendary investor and head of Berkshire Hathaway, just said on CNBC that he has spent $10.7 billion to buy about 64 million shares — about 5.5 percent — of equity in computing giant IBM.

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Obama To Sock Rich With A "Buffett Tax" On Incomes Of $1 Million Or More

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Well, this won't make President Obama's critics happy.

On Monday, the President will propose a new "Buffett Tax" on those making $1 million a year or more, Jackie Calmes of the New York Times reports.

The tax will be a sort of alternative-minimum tax that ensures that the nation's highest earners, like Warren Buffett, pay a similar percentage of their incomes in tax as middle-class people do.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Warren Buffett’s Tax-Hike Comment... hypocrite.

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This one’s truly, uh ... rich: Billionaire Warren Buffett says folks like him should have to pay more taxes -- but it turns out his firm, Berkshire Hathaway, hasn’t paid what it’s already owed for years.
That’s right: As Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson notes, the company openly admits that it owes back taxes since as long ago as 2002.
“We anticipate that we will resolve all adjustments proposed by the US Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) for the 2002 through 2004 tax years ... within the next 12 months,” the firm’s annual report says.

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