Warren Buffett News: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A)’s Score Nick, a Ruling, And a Dread Of Speechifying

2 Bank Stocks Buffett Bought (and they’re still reasonably priced!) (Fool)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) filed its highly anticipated quarterly stock-holdings report with the SEC this week. One clear conclusion from the report: Warren Buffett likes his banks. The Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) CEO raised its holding of Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC), the largest bank by market value and the fourth-largest by assets, by 4% in the first quarter. The average closing price of the stock during the first quarter was $35.63; on Thursday, the stock closed at $39.26. …Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) also raised its stake in a comparable institution, U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB). Like Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC), it is well-run, with a disciplined lending culture; together, they are the two largest U.S. banks by assets that aren’t investment banks or universal banks (such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) or Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC)).

How Warren Buffett And Joel Osteen Conquered Their Terrifying Fear Of Public Speaking (Forbes)
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett was “terrified” of public speaking. He was so nervous, in fact, that he would arrange and choose his college classes to avoid having to get up in front of people. He even enrolled in a public speaking course and dropped out before it even started. “I lost my nerve,” he said. At the age of 21, Buffett started his career in the securities business in Omaha and decided that to reach his full potential, he had to overcome his fear of public speaking. Buffett enrolled in a Dale Carnegie course with another thirty people who, like him, were “terrified of getting up and saying our names.” Buffett revealed his early insecurity in this interview for Levo League, a career website for young women.