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An Owner's Manual

Warren Buffett · Berkshire Hathaway, 1996·30 min in the original·original at berkshirehathaway.com

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Shareholders are owner-partners. Buffett and Munger describe themselves as managing partners and view the company as a conduit through which shareholders own the businesses.
Management eats its own cooking. Most of the directors' net worth sits in Berkshire stock, so shareholders and managers win and lose together.
Per-share progress is the scoreboard. The goal is growth in intrinsic value per share, not the size of the empire; size for its own sake is explicitly rejected.
Candor and rare debt. The manual promises to report failures as plainly as wins and to borrow only reluctantly, keeping Berkshire's word as good as its balance sheet.

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Thirteen principles that governed the most-watched company in investing, still published on a website that looks like 1996.

Buffett's booklet of owner-related business principles: shareholders are owner-partners, management eats its own cooking, performance is measured by per-share intrinsic value, debt is used sparingly, and results are reported with the same candor Buffett would want as a silent partner.

This distillation is written from the freely available original, which is always the better read when you have the time: berkshirehathaway.com.

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