He's our Mozart, a manager who has mastered the monetary metier. He's our Shakespeare, a financial writer who puts everyone else to shame. He's our Joe DiMaggio, with a stock-market hit streak that will never be bettered. He's also our George Bailey, the too-good-to-be-true capitalist. And if he weren't such a nice guy, we would all be jealous of him instead of in awe of him and his plainspoken nature.
He's Warren Buffett, the man who built Berkshire Hathaway into the most successful investment vehicle in history. That would be enough if he weren't also the repository of all that is...