It is unclear how many people at the table understood focus as Buffett lived that word. This kind of innate focus couldnt be emulated. It meant the intensity that is the price of excellence. It meant the discipline and passionate perfectionism that made Thomas Edison the quintessential American inventor, Walt Disney the king of family entertainment, and James Brown the Godfather of Soul. It meant single-minded obsession with an ideal.

The Snowball by Alice Schroeder