{"id":2335,"date":"2015-12-10T19:09:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T03:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/covestreetcapital.com\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T20:43:18","slug":"the-right-way-to-think-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covestreetcapital.com\/the-right-way-to-think-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right Way to Think About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Warren Buffett:  Annual Letter Comments Regarding the Selection of Corporate Directors<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nBerkshire Hathaway 2003 Annual Report: Pages 9-10 (bold added): <\/p>\n<p>True independence \u2013 meaning the willingness to challenge a forceful CEO when something is wrong or foolish \u2013 is an enormously valuable trait in a director. It is also rare. <strong>The place to look for it is among high-grade people whose interests are in line with those of rank-and-file shareholders \u2013 and are in line in a very big way<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/covestreetcapital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Director-Qualifications.pdf\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett: Annual Letter Comments Regarding the Selection of Corporate Directors Berkshire Hathaway 2003 Annual Report: Pages 9-10 (bold added): True independence \u2013 meaning the willingness to challenge a forceful CEO when something is wrong or foolish \u2013 is an enormously valuable trait in a director. It is also rare. The place to look for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[81,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esg","category-thoughts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Right Way to Think About It &#8212; Cove Street Capital<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cove Street Capital&#8212; The Right Way to Think About It &#8212;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/covestreetcapital.com\/the-right-way-to-think-about-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Right Way to Think About It &#8212; 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