The Sage of Omaha is a great man, but he does not walk on water.
But others use the sage's words to argue a different line from Mr Lee's.
The Sage of Omaha himself was summoned to Washington last month for questioning as a witness.
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"The Sage, Gateshead, home of the Northern Sinfonia, has a "pay standstill" in operation at the moment, " it said.
The sage's popularity in the West still owes more to Hollywood, source of much American soft power, than China's own efforts.
Nick Forbes said Newcastle City Hall had "no long-term future" and a new venue would be built beside the Sage Gateshead.
The sage economist John Maynard Keynes wrote about this folly in 1936, but apparently nobody in Washington remembered or even read him.
His investment expertise has earned him the nickname "the sage of Omaha".
Yet for all the sage advice in these books, none of them really manages to unlock the mystery at the heart of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Not so, says Lee Kuan Yew, the sage of Singapore.
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These days the simple life is perhaps priciest in Great Britain, where, unlike the sage actor, most owners of stately homes made their money the old-fashioned way: They inherited it.
When I was hired as a stockbroker in the late 1980s, I naturally followed the sage advice of the analysts at my firm and did what the experienced stockbrokers in my office did.
Instead of the old teaching model where you have the sage on the stage, the new model is about learning from one another to create a spark that can be fanned into a flame.
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The Sage of Omaha railed against the pointlessness of much of the work done by audit committees (while joking that he does not get asked onto compensation committees because they prefer Cocker Spaniels to Dobermans).
The Sage Gateshead has already been involved in working with schools and the community with the aim that once the venue opens, those it has already worked with will feel at ease with visiting the impressive building.
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As I report in the new issue of FORBES, the Post has been able to afford to offer buyouts considered quite generous by industry standards thanks to the sage investment advice of its biggest outside shareholder, Warren Buffett.
This is Middle East strategy brought to us by Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, the sage gurus of international diplomacy who we are told egged Obama on and figured they might outfox Bibi Netanyahu or, better yet, orchestrate his downfall.
It's always calming in these uncertain times to review the sage advice provided by investing greats such as Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, David Swenson and Jack Bogle, as well as the words of some gifted academics, many of them Nobel Laureates.
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In San Francisco a couple of weeks back the progressive medics of the Sage Commons gathered to talk about how open innovation could, should and will play an ever bigger role in disease detection and cure, with patients more active partners in this process.
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Incredible as it may seem, there was the Sage of Omaha sitting alone scarfing down his low-calorie meal of waffles dripping in syrup, slabs of bacon and on top--like the cherry on a sundae--a serving of eggs benedict, all being washed down with a huge glass of cherry Coke, the first of five such libations he drinks every day.
The Berkshire Hathaway meeting's expected all-time record attendance, which is bound to do wonders for Omaha's economy over the very short run, is a far cry from the puny 12 people ("including my relatives, " Buffett told Forbes) that didn't even fill a small room back in 1982, in the days before Buffett became widely known as the Sage of Omaha.
Set in Rudolf's Prague, this weaves dark and magical tales around the emperor's relations with Rabbi Loew, the great sage of the city's Jewish community, and Mordechai Meisl, the banker, it is said, who kept Rudolf's treasury afloat and who told only his dog where he had buried his gold.
The Victorian sage John Ruskin helped invent the modern cult of the craftsman: he was both an idealist and an aesthete, and he argued that miserable workers produced miserable work, and vice versa.
"Mostly dead is still alive, " to quote the great sage, Miracle Max, in the movie Princess Bride.
This prepares the ground for the lively enactment to follow, in which the divine sage Narada importunes Shiva to contain the demon Darika, who is immune to defeat by mortals.
Craig Jordan, director of the Lyn Sage Center at Northwestern University, found when he was working at the University of Leeds in England that tamoxifen is useful in treating breast cancer.
The more recent contributions in Peter Krass's collection include an essay by Warren Buffett, the famed Sage of Omaha whose investment approach, so-called focus investing, offers a third way between the indexers and active traders, and is the subject of a whole book by Robert Hagstrom.
Stephen Friend, the president of Sage Bionetworks and the former head of cancer research at Merck, has suggested pooling patient reported data about drugs in a similar manner.
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