“Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.” KnowsMenYearsMadeFactsRoomsCompanyPathTeamMedicineStartingZeroStarting OutGround Zero Author:Nancy Meyers
“I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.” MadeGamesDecisionCompanyMillionsPaidShoesBillionsDumbZeroDumb Decisions Author:Warren Buffett