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It's nice to know that the Sage of Omaha is/was just as prone to irrational behavior as every other CEO.

How is that nice to know? It'd be much more edifying if he were rich precisely because he doesn't make this kind of mistake.

Because it makes you feel that it's possible for you too to make it and still make mistakes.

Er, there's a quantitative difference between one mistake and two mistakes.