Zweig: Bertrand Russell is one of Warren Buffett's intellectual heroes
Jason Zweig · #4 Jason Zweig: Elevate Your Financial IQ · Oct 19, 2015 · at 56:12
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig discusses books on his nightstand and notes philosopher Bertrand Russell's influence on Warren Buffett.
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“Skeptical essays by Bertrand Russell, who wrote some of the best who was one of the best writers of the 20th century, as well as one of the clearest thinkers, and his hero, Warren Buffett's.”
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