ON WARREN BUFFET'S "GOING QUIET"
I read an article about Warren Buffett saying he was “going quiet.” I felt sad. Why? I will tell you why. I was born in a remote village called Tunuga, in March 1971. The village is situated on the border between Nigeria and Niger. There was no hospital there, and my mother gave birth to me without any medical assistance. I had often asked—now that I am a pharmacist—what if there was a complication? What if the umbilical cord had gone around my neck and I couldn’t come out naturally? But I made it. And thank God for that. Warren Buffett has talked about his luck of being born in America. I was lucky there was no complication at my birth. We were born (worlds apart) at different times. But Warren Buffett’s personality has travelled across this space to change me radically. Warren is unique. Rare. Not because of his business and investing acumen, but because of his personality. Accounting, allocation of capital is boring. Even Elon, my African ...