Notes

Preface

1. Berkshire Hathaway annual reports, 1987.

2. Ibid.

3. Warren E. Buffett, “The Superinvestors of Graham and Doddville,” Hermes Magazine, April 1984.

Introduction

1. Atul Gawande, “The Bell Curve,” The New Yorker, December 6, 2004. See also Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, and Monique Sternin, The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems (Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2010).

2. Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2003).

3. Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2008)

4. Robert J. Flaherty, “The Singular Henry Singleton,” Forbes, July 9, 1979.

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