University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting

by Daniel Pecaut

He shared how Rose Blumkin, who never went to school, was a force of nature, turning a $500 investment into a $400 million business sitting on 78 acres called the Nebraska Furniture Mart. He remembered visiting Mrs. B at her home once, and she had green sales tags hanging on the furniture. Buffett quipped that he said to himself, “Forget Sophia Loren, this is my kind of woman!”