historicalInterview2022-04-14conf:medium
Warren Buffett (Charlie Rose Returns)
“In 1942, 80 years ago, I took $114.75 every penny I saved, and I bought three shares of City Service Preferred”
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City Service Company
5 mentions across the corpus · positive 0 · negative 0 · neutral 2 · historical 3
neutralMeeting2018-05-05conf:medium
"All you had to do was figure that America was going to do well over time"
“I'd been watching a stock, a stock, called City Service Preferred Stock, which had sold at $84 the previous year. It had sold at $55 the year before”
historicalMeeting2018-05-05conf:medium
"All you had to do was figure that America was going to do well over time"
“The stock did rather well. You can see where I bought it 38 and a quarter. And then the stock went on actually to eventually be called by the city service company for over $200 a share”
neutralMeeting2018-05-05conf:medium
Morning Session - 2018 Meeting
“I said to my dad, I said, I think I'd like to pull the trigger. And I'd like you to buy me three shares of city service. prefer”
historicalMeeting2018-05-05conf:medium
Morning Session - 2018 Meeting
“the stock went on actually to eventually be called by the city service company for over $200 a share. But this is not a happy story.”