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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Warren Buffett comes up
Senior Decision Makers: Luis Laboy, Hewlett Foundation (EP.512)
- ▶ 13:55 Luis Laboy Often the origin story has to do with, I love stocks, something to do with Warren Buffett.
- ▶ 49:44 Luis Laboy When you meet a lot of managers, they'll start quoting Buffett, and you see that they try and invest like Buffett. 2 times in the scene
Roadmap for Private Credit from Australia – Frank Danieli of MA Financial Group (EP.511)
- ▶ 33:57 Frank Danieli The other one sounds like a Buffettism.
Moat Investing Nuances – Pat Dorsey (EP.509)
- ▶ 7:27 Pat Dorsey I wasn't one of these people who was reading Buffett's letters when they were in elementary school.
- ▶ 9:13 Pat Dorsey Letters of Warren Buffett, Phil Fisher, and John Trains Money Masters, the usuals. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:15 Pat Dorsey That's a lot of early investors, certainly mine, initial introduction to what is a moat from Buffett's letters a long time ago.
- ▶ 20:51 Ted Seides You start with the Warren Buffett line that you want a business so great that any idiot can run it because eventually someone will. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:08 Ted Seides As you walk through this, it sure sounds like non-US could be in the Buffett too hard pile.
- ▶ 1:06:11 Pat Dorsey Famous quote from Mr.
Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
- ▶ 13:29 Rajiv Jain The classic stuff, Buffett and Peter Lynch, you sort of grasp that the bottom up understanding of business does matter.
- ▶ 22:47 Rajiv Jain Buffett can do whatever sitting, reading Moody's manual and pick up stock two times earnings.
Promote Giving – A New Model for Performance-Driven Giving (EP.496)
- ▶ 0:38 Ted Seides In addition to his long and stellar career in the credit markets, Joel spearheaded the launch of Promote Giving, a philanthropic initiative similar to Warren Buffett and Bill Gates' Giving Pledge designed for alternative asset managers.
Gavin Baker – Truth-Seeking and Crossover Investing at Atreides (EP.489)
- ▶ 16:08 Gavin Baker I read Buffett's letters to his shareholders.
- ▶ 21:39 Gavin Baker They're steeped in Buffett, and they're super convinced that that's the only way to do it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:57 Gavin Baker Warren Buffett's famous statement is the price you pay determines your return.
- ▶ 1:07:01 Gavin Baker You can't be competitive in this game if you don't, to quote Buffett, tap dance into work.
Year in Review 2025 (EP.478)
- ▶ 13:51 unnamed speaker Earlier this year, you posed another bet, similar to the one you made with Warren Buffett back in 2007. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:26 Ted Seides I follow all the health stuff, and I get it, and Warren Buffett says this thing about if he had a twin, and that twin only ate broccoli, he's sure that he, the current Warren Buffett, would be much happier drinking his Cherry Cokes and…
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 16:17 Alex Sacerdote So one of the reasons Warren Buffett has not liked tech is he found it to be so unpredictable.
Robert Boucai & James Broyer – Tax-Efficient Multifamily Real Estate at Newbrook (EP.475)
- ▶ 38:34 Robert Bukai As I often tell the guys, Warren Buffett made 99% of his money after the age of 50. 2 times in the scene
Michael Kelly – Democratizing Access to the Middle Market at Future Standard (EP.473)
- ▶ 14:18 Mike Kelly It always struck me that people who went into investment management wanted to be the next Warren Buffett.
Morgan Housel – The Art of Spending Money (EP.466)
- ▶ 14:27 Morgan Housel Buffett talked about this quite a bit with finance. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:17 Morgan Housel There's a great Buffett quote, too.
Herb Wagner – Opportunistic Value at Finepoint Capital (EP.460)
- ▶ 20:45 Herb Wagner And it used to be, back when I was just getting started, it was buying cigar bots, like Warren Buffett and Benjamin Grant used to talk about.
Ted on Alt Goes Mainstream (EP.458)
- ▶ 9:29 Ted Seides Warren Buffett clearly preaches it.
- ▶ 14:43 Ted Seides So we'll leave aside the old one that I made with Warren Buffett a long time ago that was hedge funds against the market. 2 times in the scene
Tim Sullivan – Yale's Private Portfolio (EP.456)
- ▶ 41:50 Ted Seides Maybe with that one as an example, there's this great Warren Buffett line that when the tide goes out, you learn who's swimming naked.
Friends Reunion 3 – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (EP.454)
- ▶ 6:37 Ted Seides AI, private credit, Bitcoin, Scott Besant, Warren Buffett's retirement, and kids going to college. 2 times in the scene
Howard Marks – Navigating Private Credit (EP.439)
- ▶ 18:56 Howard Marks Buffett puts it very succinctly, first the innovator, then the imitator, then the idiot.
- ▶ 33:39 Howard Marks Buffett says it best all the time. 2 times in the scene
Anthony Pompliano – Building Influence and Capital to Live an Extraordinary Life (EP.430)
- ▶ 46:10 Anthony Pompliano And so Jim Simons, very rich man, so is Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 23:50 Mitchell Green Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger would say we were idiots, but this is our version of return on equity.
Chris and Rob Michalik - Twin Tackle of Private Equity at Kinderhook (EP.416)
- ▶ 12:29 Chris and Rob Michalik Warren Buffett stepped in to bail out the firm.
Scott Bessent - Macro Maven (EP.415)
- ▶ 47:43 Scott Bessent One of the world's greatest stock picker, Warren Buffett.
Ricky Sandler - Evolution of Long-Short Equity Investing (EP.414)
- ▶ 57:44 Ricky Sandler Don't invest just like Buffett.
Brad Briner - Family Office to Public Service (EP.413)
- ▶ 50:59 Brad Briner Yes, there's more bureaucracy, but without Warren Buffett in the sole fiduciary chair for a hundred years, it probably makes sense to go away from it.
David Salem - Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box (EP.409)
- ▶ 26:50 David Salem Psychologically, it frees you up, and Buffett, more than any other actor in my lifetime, has proven the value because you can seize an opportunity that others may not be positioned to seize.
- ▶ 41:14 David Salem Well, I do regard them as opposite sides of the same coin, because I do think that what unfolded in Japan from its peak at the end of 1989 until just a few years ago, maybe we can give your friend Mr.
Rahul Moodgal – Master Fund Raiser Returns (EP.408)
- ▶ 35:59 Rahul Moodgal The Warren Buffett
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 17:03 Mike Maples, Jr. I'm a big fan of Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett, and one of the things I really appreciate about them is just their 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:28 Mike Maples, Jr. It's like Buffett and Munger talk about your margin of safety when you buy a stock.
Jase Auby - Risk, Size, and Talent at Texas Teachers (EP.404)
- ▶ 57:26 Ted Seides We all have a lot of our favorite Munger Buffett quotes. 2 times in the scene
Classic Deal - Burger King by 3G Capital (EP.384)
- ▶ 7:16 Ted Seides Friendships, and Warren's continued wit and wisdom.
- ▶ 48:46 Alex Behring At that point, we had developed a good relationship with Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
David Morehead – Top Down Allocation at Baylor (EP.381)
- ▶ 55:54 David Morehead Warren Buffett has 10.
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 25:34 Chris Dixon If you read some of the popular press, so Warren Buffett and Michael Burry and these other folks will say it's rat poison and magic beans.
Training Grounds – Carnegie Corporation of New York (EP.377)
- ▶ 18:05 Elisa Maul When the Warren Buffett of the ENF world calls, you answer.
Jonathan Tepper - Buying Monopolies at Prevatt Capital (EP.375)
- ▶ 47:48 Jonathan Tepper Buffett, Munger, and Templeton, you know, were doing it in their nineties.
- ▶ 52:17 Jonathan Tepper I was talking to him about my plans for the fund and what I wanted to do and these great investors and Templeton and Buffett and Chris Hound and others.
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 59:58 Magnus Grimeland One tremendous learning from Warren Buffett, which I always enjoyed, was invest in yourself.
George Michelakis – Chess Master's Approach to Long-Short Equity at Gladstone (EP.362)
- ▶ 6:30 Ted Seides Just don't tell Warren Buffett
Brian Christiansen – High-Conviction Growth Investing at Sands Capital (EP.361)
- ▶ 23:19 Ted Seides There's this great Warren Buffett line that you want to own a business that's so good that any idiot could run it because eventually someone will.
Morgan Housel – Same as Ever (EP.359)
- ▶ 11:01 Ted Seides He's a guy who's a little bit wealthier than you in Omaha. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:30 Morgan Housel I think you can think about someone like Buffett, and I think an underappreciated contributor to his success is that for his entire life, he's been such an effective communicator. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:31 Morgan Housel And now when you find a fund manager that earns amazing returns for a long period of time, then you get Buffett.
- ▶ 41:15 Morgan Housel It's much easier to quote Warren Buffett and say, be greedy when others are fearful, than it is to actually do it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:04 Morgan Housel And to a lesser extent, age of Buffett and Munger, who just passed away, of course.
Gary Sernovitz - Inside the CIO Seat (EP.357)
- ▶ 41:26 Gary Sernovitz It's Buffett. 2 times in the scene
Ted Seides – Unlocking Investment Wisdom (EP.352)
- ▶ 23:03 Sarah Samuels Ok, so tell us about Warren Buffett. 14 times in the scene
WTT - NAV Loans: Canary or the Gold Mine?
- ▶ 10:38 Ted Seides It's a bit like Warren Buffett's centralized capital allocation at Berkshire Hathaway.
- ▶ 11:12 Ted Seides Lightly leveraged loans may not have much risk, but as Buffett says, what the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.
Finny Kuruvilla – The Fourth Source of Alpha at Eventide (EP.343)
- ▶ 30:52 Finny Kuruvilla The third type of alpha he talks about is a behavioral alpha, where the most famous line here is from Buffett's, be fearful when everyone's greedy, be greedy when everyone is fearful, where you can do better than most people if you…
Michael Carmen – Late-Stage Private Investing at Wellington (EP.332)
- ▶ 2:19 Ted Seides I would have told you not to make any bets on active management, especially against Warren Buffett.
Sachin Khajuria and Brendan Ballou – Private Equity: Profit or Plunder? (EP.331)
- ▶ 6:02 Ted Seides If you told me going into this year that the big seven tech names would be up a hundred percent in the first half, I would have told you not to make any bets on active management, especially against Warren Buffett.
Seth Klarman – Timeless Value Investing (EP.328)
- ▶ 24:01 Seth Klarman There's description among other things of the super investors article that Warren Buffett wrote in 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:28 Seth Klarman In the way Warren Buffett would describe it.
- ▶ 53:54 Seth Klarman Looking, being early and being wrong look exactly the same, and you can start to get confused, and your people can start to get confused, and your clients can start to get confused, and so I don't know anybody other than maybe Warren…
- ▶ 56:10 Seth Klarman And we know Warren Buffett wrote in the 73, 74 timeframe on fortune.
- ▶ 1:14:52 Seth Klarman I think Warren and Charlie are great exemplars that you can still be doing this into your nineties, but I don't think I should be running bow post more than another 15 or so years.
- ▶ 1:19:02 Seth Klarman The David Abrams section on the lessons of investing in both public and private assets, and how they hand in hand can make you better at each, which is what Warren Buffett says, that I'm a better businessman because I'm an investor, and… 2 times in the scene
James Aitken – Opportunities and Risks from Monetary Policy (EP.326)
- ▶ 36:29 James Aitken So Japanese equities, and to be clear, not just because Mr. 2 times in the scene
Porter Collins and Vincent Daniel - Big Shorts and Big Longs (Capital Allocators, EP.325)
- ▶ 33:43 Porter Collins And you sit around and I feel like that's what Buffett does. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:51 Porter Collins The true value of where Warren Buffett or a private equity would come in and pay actual physical dollars for some of these
Don Mullen –Single-Family Rentals at Pretium (Capital Allocators, EP.324)
- ▶ 4:50 Don Mullen Similar to what Warren Buffett says, you know, we can't ignore the benefits we get from being born in an era. 2 times in the scene
Jim Falbe – Modern Value Investing at Saguaro (Capital Allocators, EP.320)
- ▶ 8:25 Jim Falbe I'd also heard a lot about Warren Buffett. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:22 Jim Falbe Ended up doing pretty good on that test and wanted to go to Columbia, because that's what Warren Buffett did, but ended up not being able to go to Columbia, and the university which was willing to take a chance on me was Notre Dame.
- ▶ 13:44 Jim Falbe Well, I think coming into Vulcan, I was more of a special situations guy, and I really wanted to make the same evolution that Warren Buffett himself had made, which is how do I really find these high quality businesses that can compound…
- ▶ 20:57 Jim Falbe Warren Buffett used to talk about when you go through the Moody's manuals, he'd look at every single business, but some of them he didn't look at that long.
Kiyan Zandiyeh – Empty Rooms: Venture Capital on the Emerging Frontier at Sturgeon Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.317)
- ▶ 3:19 Kiyan Zandiyeh And then I think, yeah, 1314, read the Lowenstein book and Buffett, The Making of an American Capitalist, and that's when you have your cliche aha moment as 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:41 Kiyan Zandiyeh And being ingrained in the school of Buffett, I've said, okay, well, let me just be unoriginal and copy exactly what he did in his partnership.
Richard Craib – Crowdsourcing Data Science for Returns at Numerai (Capital Allocators, EP.314)
- ▶ 45:42 Richard Craib I think in the investment industry, there's a thing Warren Buffett says.
Rod Wong – Empty Rooms: Innovation in Biotech at RTW (Capital Allocators, EP. 310)
Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
- ▶ 12:16 Tom Steyer The Warren Buffettism applied in different ways, but first rule of investing is don't lose money.
- ▶ 18:11 Tom Steyer I was trying to do arbitrage, distress, deep value, things where I felt like we were obeying Warren Buffett's first rule of investing, don't lose money.
Venture Capital Panel – Beezer Clarkson, Chris Douvos, and Joelle Kayden (Capital Allocators, EP.299)
- ▶ 38:59 Ted Seides You know, you go through periods like this, and you get the proverbial tide going out, and a Warren Buffett line about who's swimming naked.
José E. Feliciano – Flexible Private Market Investing at Clearlake (Capital Allocators, EP. 297)
- ▶ 21:02 Jose Feliciano You think that we are Warren Buffett. 2 times in the scene
Anthony Scaramucci – Another Winter and Another Rebirth (Capital Allocators, EP.292)
- ▶ 21:56 Anthony Scaramucci And of course, if we've got it completely wrong, let's say Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are right. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:19 Anthony Scaramucci The next person to speak was a guy named Warren Buffett. 7 times in the scene
Gregg Lemkau - The Evolution of MSD (Capital Allocators, EP.291)
- ▶ 38:52 Gregg Lemkau Yeah, so BDT, it's a phenomenal firm and a phenomenal business built by a former partner of mine at Goldman Sachs named Byron Trott, and he left, I think, in about 2009, and with the original backing of Warren Buffett and then a number of…
Neal Foard – The Art of Storytelling (Capital Allocators, EP.290)
- ▶ 15:05 Neal Foard On your website, Ted, you have this wonderful quote from Warren Buffett, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 Neal Foard The same way that Warren Buffett is able to communicate, market downturns are not all bad.
Charley Ellis - Figuring Out Investing and Vanguard (Capital Allocators, EP.286)
- ▶ 25:52 Ted Seides The baseball analogy, a little more like a Warren Buffett, wait for your fat pitch, which in some sense is the antithesis of indexing.
- ▶ 50:35 Charlie Ellis Well, first they went to Omaha, Nebraska and talked to Warren Buffett.
Colin Smith and Farouk Miah - Empty Rooms: Investing in Africa (Capital Allocators, EP. 279)
- ▶ 1:04:05 Farouk Miah And then subsequent to that, obviously Howard Marks, Buffett, et cetera, but Peter Lynch and one up on Wall Street was a big one.
Adam Wyden - ADW Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.37)
- ▶ 30:56 Adam Wyden I would say Joel Greenblatt and Buffett, this combination of understanding why things are cheap and what I would call structural mispricings. 2 times in the scene
Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- ▶ 4:33 Ted Seides Hayden asked me some great questions that cover the difference in retail and institutional investing, aspects of my professional experience, insights from my conversations with Sam Zell, Joel Greenblatt, Chamath Palihapitiya, Mike…
- ▶ 22:17 Hayden Brain Uh, during the interview, he referenced Buffett who said, and I'm sure most people have heard this quote, buying when no one else wants to buy creates opportunity.
- ▶ 32:11 Hayden Brain Chamath talks about Buffett again, about how he accelerated his own worldview, which seems to be largely centered around US exceptionalism. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:48 Ted Seides He certainly would have done a lot better if he had met Warren Buffett and owned Berkshire Hathaway.
- ▶ 47:38 Hayden Brain Uh, and you mentioned Buffett there, obviously it's been almost a constant theme throughout the podcast. 18 times in the scene
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