One of Buffett's best recent investments came as a suggestion from his long-time lieutenant Charlie Munger. In 2008, Munger sold Buffett on Chinese car battery company BYD by saying that its CEO, Wang Chuan-Fu, was quite obviously a descendant of both Thomas Edison and Jack Welch. He solves problems like Edison and gets things done like Welch, Munger said. "I've never seen anything like it in my life."
巴菲特近幾年最成功的一筆投資是長期追隨他的副手查理•芒格提議的。2008年,芒格向巴菲特推薦了中國汽車動力電池制造商比亞迪。他說,比亞迪的CEO王傳福是托馬斯•愛迪生和杰克•韋爾奇(譯注:前通用電氣公司CEO)的化身,解決技術(shù)問題時像愛迪生,行事風(fēng)格則像韋爾奇。芒格說:“我以前從未見到過這樣的人才?!?/span>