Why buying Berkshire was Warren Buffett's biggest mistake [MSNBC.com]
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HisClass A sharesBloomberg Billionaires Index.He would be No. 22 on that list with roughly $359 billion if he held onto the hundreds of thousands ofBerkshire B sharesGiven all the success he's had with the company, it may be surprising to hear him call Berkshire "the dumbest stock I ever bought" ... a blunder that has cost him hundreds of billions of dollars.From the deep recesses of CNBC'sWarren ,BECKY QUICK:WARREN BUFFETT:And here was this cheap stock, cheap by working capital standards or so. But it was a stock in a — in a textile company that had been going downhill for years. So, it was a huge company originally, and they kept closing one mill after another. And every time they would close a mill, they would — take the proceeds and they would buy in their stock. And I figured they were going to close; they only had a few mills left, but that they would close another one. I'd buy the stock. I'd tender it to them and make a small profit.So I started buying the stock. And in 1964, w
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