Buffett is an interesting character. From this article, it would appear that he sees himself as some kind of entrepreneur/investor/manager hybrid than as a pure money manager.
If you go on to read anything about activist investors, like Carl Icahn, you get the feeling that the only way to beat the market is to tamper with it.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/for-buffett-the-long-...
If you go on to read anything about activist investors, like Carl Icahn, you get the feeling that the only way to beat the market is to tamper with it.