"Jamie Dimon on the Line"
Long [but good] Vanity Fair profile of Jamie Dimon, one of my favorite CEO’s and speakers: > Warren Buffett…, says that when Berkshire Hathaway bought the railroad Burlington Northern for $26 billion, in the fall of 2009, he called up Dimon on the Tuesday morning just prior to the public announcement of the deal and said, “Jamie, I need $8 billion!” “You got it,” Buffett says Dimon told him. “Even with some of the other big banks, that’s not something you could do on the phone,” Buffett adds. ...