Warren Buffett Letter to Katherine Graham in 1975

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Warren Buffett letter to Katherine Graham on pensions and how he saved the Washington Post.

Warren Buffett Letter to Katherine Graham in 1975

Excerpt followed by full letter below.

“If above-average performance is to be their yard stick, the vast majority of investment managers must fail. Will a few succeed — due to either to chance or skill? Of course. For some intermediate period of years a few are bound to look better than average due to chance — just as would be the case if 1,000 ‘coin managers’ engaged in a coin-flipping contest. There would be some ‘winners’ over a five or 10-flip measurement cycle. (After five flips, you would expect to have 31 with uniformly ‘successful’ records — who, with their oracular abilities confirmed in the crucible of the marketplace, would author pedantic essays on subjects such as pensions.)”

Warren Buffett letter below

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