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Although the Oppenheimer Fund was never number one in any given year, over its first ten years, it had the best performance record of any mutual fund in the country, according to The New York Times.

Eugene Linden • The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market

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Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace

At some point in the 90s Coca Cola was 40% of BH’s portfolio, and they made a 13x on the investment during the next decade

Business Breakdowns • Berkshire Hathaway: The Incomparable Compounder - [Business Breakdowns, EP. 63]

300-year-old trash becomes treasure via an urban archaeologist | The Artifact Artist

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The same couple that spends the weekend searching for the best deal on airfares to London buys 500 shares of KLM without having spent five minutes learning about the company.

Peter Lynch • One Up on Wall Street

Brunello is part businessman, part philosopher and part monk. He is not Jeff Bezos or Larry Page. He certainly isn’t chief executive of an oil company. He is the anti-LVMH, and that is what makes him interesting.

om.co • Brunello Cucinelli

Each year, new products account for approximately 15 % of LVMH sales, and some of them enjoy operating margins of up to 47 % . (For a list of the company’s brands, see the exhibit “The House of Arnault.”) What makes these statistics all the more remarkable is that many of these products at first appear utterly outlandish—a kidney-shaped handbag cov... See more

Suzy Wetlaufer • The Perfect Paradox of Star Brands: An Interview with Bernard Arnault of LVMH

If there wasn’t a new product being launched, we would often create extensions of existing products to launch, such as new shades of existing lipsticks or a lighter version of one of our fragrances. I call this “scalloping,” a technique I borrowed from the mass marketers when they continually reinvented their laundry detergents by adding a new twis

Leonard A. Lauder • The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty

Never make an important decision without a woman at the table Growing up with a mother like Estée Lauder, how could I not respect and seek out smart, tough women? Strong women have made some of the best decisions for this company. Our great strength as a company has derived from the fact that from the beginning, we had a woman giving women the prod