“You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you taught that the world was flat.”

—  Warren Buffett

As quoted in "The Heresy That Made Them Rich" by Joseph Nocera, in The New York Times (29 October 2005) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E1D71E3FF93AA15753C1A9639C8B63

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