Buffett reveals what a company director is paid for 6 meetings a year, then asks one question that explain
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Warren Buffett sat on the boards of 21 companies over 62 years, and in this letter he explains how the people who are supposed to guard your money actually get chosen. He then reveals what the job pays for a few days of work a year, points out that the word independent has come to mean close to its opposite, and names the one thing he looks for in the directors of companies he owns. By the end you will have two questions to ask of any annual report, and nobody in the governance business is going to ask them for you.
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