“Did it ever bother you,” I ask him, “that people said you were a has-been, that you were through?” “Never,” he says in his folksy, gravelly voice. “Nothing bothers me like that. You can’t do well in investments unless you think independently. And the truth is, you’re neither right nor wrong because people agree with you. You’re right because your facts and your reasoning are right. In the end that’s all that counts. And there wasn’t any question about the facts or reasoning being correct.”
