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Buffett tips off MU crowd
During a videoconference yesterday, University of Missouri business students had the chance to pick the brain of the billionaire investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. as a part of a daylong educational forum hosted by MU’s Trulaske College of Business.
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"Develop your own talents," Buffett said via satellite from a television station in his hometown of Omaha, Neb. He added that oral and written communication skills are the most important tools a person can have coming out of college.
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"If you have those abilities when you’re young, you jump out," the 77-year-old business giant said.
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