When we were looking for a weekend place, ... Shannon was working at Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires, and I was tooling around. I called her all excited about getting a home up there. But she said 'Yeah, but it's a three-hour drive. When do we have the time for a three-hour drive With our one day off, we'll come up and we'll have to go home right away.'
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Sally's experience and longtime commitment to the cultural and economic development of the Berkshires will be a great asset to the Clark. We welcome her and look forward to working with her.
We got a good look at the Himalayas, which they tell me are about 28,000 feet high. I expected to be very impressed, but really, they didn't look any more picturesque to me than the Berkshires or the Green Mountains. Certainly not as pleasant-looking as the wooded mountains we have in New England. I'll leave those cold and barren slopes in Asia to the mountain climbers.
I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.
At 74, Buffett says he is in excellent health and has no plans to retire. Nor has he named a successor. But if he did leave the company, what would happen to it Buffett is universally viewed as the key to Berkshire's fine performance. He's obviously a very bright man, ... He looks at things very rationally. He doesn't like to get his emotions involved.
Berkshire's board has fully discussed each of the three CEO candidates and has unanimously agreed on the person who should succeed me if a replacement were needed today.