Buffet actually had an interesting marriage in real life.<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5133316.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5133316.stm</a><p>In 1952, Buffett married Susan Thompson, with whom he had three children: Susie, Howard and Peter. Outwardly their marriage looked conventional - his wife accompanied him on almost all of his public appearances, served on the board of his company and was one of Berkshire Hathaway's largest shareholders.<p>But they ceased to live together in 1977, when she moved to San Francisco. As a parting gift, however, Mrs Buffett had introduced her husband to Astrid Menks, a Latvian-born waitress working in Omaha. She moved in with Buffett and remains his companion.<p>The unusual friendship led the three to send presents to relatives from "Warren, Susie and Astrid". Warren and Susan remained married until her death in 2004.
Lots of nuggets. Here's another on selling out your company:<p><i>"You can sell it to Berkshire, and we'll put it in the Metropolitan Museum; it'll have a wing all by itself; it'll be there forever. Or you can sell it to some porn shop operator, and he'll take the painting and he'll make the boobs a little bigger and he'll stick it up in the window, and some other guy will come along in a raincoat, and he'll buy it."</i>
> On being active: "It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age."<p>Ironic. Isn't Warren Buffet known to be tight with money?
<p><pre><code> On internal yardsticks: "Would you prefer to be the
greatest lover in the world and known as the worst,
or would you prefer to be the worst lover and
known as the greatest?"
</code></pre>
Which one is supposed to be better?<p>Some people are much better at interviewing for a job than doing the job. Others are great at the job but fail at interviews.<p>I started to notice a few years ago that I fall pretty extremely into one of those categories, but I made peace by being glad I wasn't at the other extreme.