For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.

From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.

Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.