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1998 Annual Meeting

"I do not mind paying a lot of money for performance"

Warren Buffett is fine with rewarding great managers with high salaries, but says he thinks it's "obscene" when mediocre ones are paid too much.

Mon, May 4 1998 • 1:00 PM EDT
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