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Unless i ve had it 20, 25 years. star track. do you use e-mail? i sent one e-mail in my life. who to? i sent to the jeff rakes at microsoft and ended up in court in minneapolis. [ laughter ] so i m one for one. [ laughter ] and you still have your old car, is that right? well, it s not old, it s about six years. right, you re not into flash things, are you, really? no, i have everything i want. i m happy. let s turn to your son because when i interviewed him nine months ago we got into deals you did together as father and son which i found gripping they are not that gripping. they are. they are. howard, you turned your backyard into a little farm and wanted to do a deal with your dad about the rental. explain to me what the deal was. ....
Offering interesting advice to this student which appears to be the strangulation variety. i recognize that. he s the last woman that asked me to take out my billfold. [ laughter ] that s what happens, ladies and gentlemen, if you ask warren buffet to show you his wallet. that young man will win both signed copies for a terrific paragraph he sent in there. howard, of all the places you ve been, issues you dealt with, what is the most powerful? the resilience of people. i don t know if you saw the movie blood diamond but hundreds of victims that survived the ruf attacks in sierra leon during a conflict there and they had they were offered a long sleeve short sleeve and chop their arms in different places. it amazing to watch these people figure out how to carry water back village. they sliced a little boy s chest ....
howard, you turned your backyard into a little farm and wanted to do a deal with your dad about the rental. explain to me what the deal was. that was on 400 acres that hwb farms now and the deal was that the rent amount would be based on my weight. this was not a brilliant moment in paradise. [ laughter ] what were you thinking? so if you put on weight the rent went up and if you reduced your weight, the rent went down? yeah, and i started feeding him candy and pie and unfortunately, i kept paying the higher rate. so it didn t work? no, not really. conversely, there was an incentive scheme on a car you wanted for a gift, you wanted money for it. tell me about that because that did work. i knew when i graduated from high school i would really want a car so i went to my dad this was at the beginning of high school. i said for the next three years if i don t get a birthday present or a christmas present, would you get me a car? ....
amazing work you do. but my favorite story is the time that your mother very unusual welly for her decided had enough of you, locks you away in your bedroom. most kids in that position and i ve been in that position, you sit there and eventually allowed back in the community. not you, howard. what did you do? i had a row of windows in my room and i opened a window up. we had a greenhouse. i had to be careful climbing out because i didn t want to go through the glass and i got down and we had a charge account at the local hardware store about five blocks away and i went there and convinced the guy to let me charge a half block and i crawled back in and locked her out. you changed the lock on your bedroom door so she couldn t get back in. i put a has p lock on it. he was the hanable elector. i can t think on another ....
To remember about stocks is you have these feels about them and they don t care about you. you bought the stock at 20 and now it s 18 and you hate it. the stock doesn t know what you paid. it has no feelings about you. the reason i asked you, when you were young you sold coca-cola and are a huge holder in coca-cola. when we asked the family involving you, as well, what the rider would be for the dressing room requirement, there was one request, anything coca-cola related. so i thought this man actually drinks this stuff? five a day. no, here is the other thing i want to do for viewers, a little moment in the break which made me laugh so loudly i nearly couldn t come back from the break. we were discussing cell phones. i m a blackberry relics. i hang on the blackberry. it turns out hwb has two. yes. howard didn t bring any at all and warren has something i haven t seen since grandfather clock. this is the one alexander ball gave me. ....