On: Nebraska Furniture Mart

[609venezia]

Do you have a source for her abuse? A quick search didn’t turn up anything—your comment is the top google result :)

[tim333 → 609venezia]

Here's something from http://www.quoteswise.com/rose-blumkin-quotes.html :

>[To Warren Buffett when she had lined up a group of her grandsons and sons-in-law and nephews against a wall and was lecturing them.] See all these guys next to me? If I sell it to you, you can fire them. These people are a bunch of bums, and they are all related to me and I can’t fire them. But you can fire them. They’re bums, bums, bums. [‘She went on like this for an hour, literally. The word ‘bums’ recurred many, many times. Then she dismissed me. I had served my purpose.’ – ###Warren Buffett

The other quotes are quite an interesting read also.

[zaroth → 609venezia]

Seriously, the ranking of HN comments in organic Google results is a little bit off-putting in some cases.

Someone dialed up the weights on HN comments way past where IMO a potentially throwaway remark should be scored.

And I say this as someone who tries to make substantive and significant HN posts on the regular.

[hogFeast → 609venezia]

As I said somewhere else, you should check out Alice Schroder's chapter on NFM in her Buffett bio for a source.