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Introduction
I first came across Poor Charlie's Almanack in my 20s when I was trying to learn everything I could about what made successful businesses tick. I found it to be a refreshing rebuttal of conventional financial wisdom delivered with unusual simplicity and candor.
Never before had I heard a venerated businessperson express such trenchant insights about investing, finance and the world more broadly and with such chutzpah. One can't help but read a line like, without numerical fluency, you were like a one-legged man in an a**-kicking contest, and come away not only chuckling, but also a little bit wiser.
I had the privilege of meeting Charlie at his home in Los Angeles. I was delighted to find that he is just as engaging and intellectually curious in person as he is on the page. He also, I discovered, had considerably more stamina than I do. More than four hours into our dinner, I was ready for bed while Charlie showed no signs of flagging.