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CNBC Transcript: Warren Buffett's $200B Berkshire Blunder and the Valuable Lesson He Learned

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Warren Buffett tells CNBC that his 1964 decision to buy Berkshire Hathaway, then a fading Massachusetts textile company, was a $200 billion blunder.

He talked about that mistake, and the lesson he learned from it, in a taped interview with CNBC's Becky Quick for a series of TV segments