Wipro, however, has a lot of the fundamental characteristics that my Buffett-based model looks for.

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The Ricochet guys are inverse to each other but my own partnering experience suggests that there is a benefit to undertaking business ventures with others who share similar characteristics, if not my personality category.

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Here are five of those characteristics, each followed by my thoughts.

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All of the above are definitely weaknesses I have seen in potential candidates, but also characteristics I have seen perhaps in my younger self and contemporaries.

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Here are a handful that have the fundamentals and financials to get solid scores from my model, and also seem to possess the qualitative characteristics Buffett looks for.

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