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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Stocks A to Z / Stocks B / Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
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Author: dealraker ✶  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Hold the damn stock
Date: 02/25/25 6:21 AM
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The point of my post is that over the years, and the years past fast people, I have participated in Berk forums. In the beginning I owned about $1 mil of the combo of Berk and AJ Gallagher, both not much covered by Wall Street and both never considered to be THE place to be as far as the heat of the moment.

So during this time the Berk forums (Thank goodness not today!!!! The forum is great today) would be over-taken for years by Buffett bashers, the "old man out of it" and "near dead man who didn't understand technology" and whatnot. Cisco, Amazon...they all were the focus of those down on Buffett, we went years of "Bezos should be the head of Berkshire," or "John Chambers is god of investing" and the like.

I owned 25 shares of Berk and 62,500 shares of AJ Gallagher and thought to myself, "All I have to do is watch. I don't need a deep analysis, Mr. Buffett will take of that. My goal is to be emotionally stable and hold the damn stock."

My net worth just holding the two stocks above has gone from about $1 mil during this time to almost $40 mil. And again, my post is about business ownership, that you don't need what you don't need. But you do need patience.
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