Landing deals with the big logo companies | Synopsis

Landing deals with the big logo companies

Berkshire Hathaway 2007 by TEDizen
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This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, "How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffett - Lessons from the World's Greatest Dealmaker" written with Henry DeVries and published by McGraw-Hill, available now. In 1962, Warren merged all his partnerships into one, then invested in and eventually took control of a textile manufacturing firm, Berkshire Hathaway, which would become his holding company. However, he regards the deal not as a great triumph but perhaps as his biggest deal-making blunder. "You might think this principle is obvious, but I had to learn it the hard way -- in fact, I had to learn it several times over," Buffett wrote in his 1989 letter. "Shortly after purchasing Berkshire, I acquired a Baltimore department store, Hochschild Kohn, buying through a company called Diversified Retailing that later merged with Berkshire.

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Hochschild Kohn

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Landing deals with the big logo companies

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The logo deal strategy is one of the most intentional approaches to true business development that we know -- it puts you in the driver's seat for reaching your ultimate goals

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Syrian opposition wary of US push on leaders | Synopsis

Syrian opposition wary of US push on leaders

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As fighting rages in Syria with heavy air raids, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U. S.  would push for a major revamp in Syria's opposition leadership. NBC's Keith Miller reports. Members of Syria's opposition-in-exile bristled Thursday at the Obama administration's suggestion that Washington will handpick more representative leaders at a crucial conference in Qatar next week. The new U. S. push appears aimed at creating a unified leadership that could work more closely with the West. But there are signs of resistance among deeply fractured opposition groups wary of attempts by foreign backers to dictate strategy in the civil war against President Bashar Assad. "This direct tutelage and these dictates are not acceptable to the Syrian people anymore," Zuhair Salem, the London-based spokesman for Syria's banned Muslim Brotherhood opposition group, told The Associated Press.

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Syrian opposition wary of US push on leaders

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Members of Syria's opposition-in-exile bristle at the Obama administration's suggestion that the U.S. will handpick more representative leaders at a crucial conference in Qatar next week.

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