By VW Staff. Originally published at ValueWalk.
Published on Oct 30, 2016
An interview and Q&A with Warren Buffett. In this interview Warren discusses what makes a good business and explains what he finds so attractive about businesses with a high rate of return on tangible assets. Warren also goes on to discuss Hilary Clinton, investing and his thoughts on the price levels in the economy.
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Video Segments:
0:00 Introduction
0:24 What makes a good business?
3:10 Are banks good businesses?
6:22 Current price levels of the market ?
9:02 Hilary Clinton
9:45 Who is going to be her opponent?
10:18 Is Hilary going to win?
10:53 Have you had any cyber security problems?
14:45 Hank Greenberg trial?
20:24 Political deadlock in Washington?
23:19 Start of Q&A
23:30 View on the economy?
28:18 When to “throw in the towel” in investments & businesses?
34:14 How much of a problem is home building?
Interview Date: 7th October , 2014
Event: Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit
Original Image Source: http://bit.ly/WarrenBuffettF
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night they said morning and i’m going to
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be asking some questions as usual and we
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will go to the audience a little bit
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later so get your questions Warren I’m
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going to start unusually with current
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events because last week you announced
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that you were buying the fifth largest
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auto insurance auto insurance auto
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dealership in the country van tile group
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of things now there may even be some
0:41
people in the audience who think of the
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car business as epically channel
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challenge but at any rate what I’d like
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you to do is spend a a paragraph or two
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talking about what why Buffett standards
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is a good business and then go into why
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does the car dealership business look
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like a good business to you a good
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businesses and one that turns a high
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rate of return on on tangible assets
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very simple
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that’s pretty simple yeah and and the
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very best businesses are the ones that
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earn a high rate of return on tangible
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assets and and grow but even ones that
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don’t roll there i return on tangible
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assets and then of course you if you
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don’t pay too much they can be a good
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investment they’re good business to
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start with by the high returns if you
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pay too much for him you can turn a a
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good business into a bad investment but
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if you can appropriate price you can you
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can do all right now the big mistake
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which we made in areas was to try and
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