Jim,
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>You're right. I have done pretty well in the market with no talent or imagination whatsoever just mimicking Buffet's buys, holds, and sells -- on a much, much smaller scale, of course.
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Would you be doing this if it had been on a larger scale?:-)

Seriously, Buffet's a good person to mimick. He follows something my father told me years ago, "Invest for the long haul". I think that's one of the reasons that he doesn't like speculators.

>>Nothing wrong with that. Reminds me of something I said once to my friend Roger Greene. Roger is a Hollywood film editor. At the time, he was working with Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong on one of their films. I told him to tell them that I thought that they were "great capitalists". The knew, understood, and played to their market. From what I recall, they appreciated the remark.:-)