If Warren Buffett had never learned anything new after graduating from Columbia Business School, Berkshire Hathaway would be a pale shadow of its present self.

Buffett would have become rich – what he learned from Ben Graham at Columbia was enough to make anybody rich. But he wouldn’t have the type of enterprise Berkshire is if he hadn’t kept learning. I don’t know anyone who became a great investor with great rapidity...

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