Over and over again he took complex situations, understood their essence, and used that understanding to make a bold definitive move, often in a completely unexpecteddirection.
Longer term, were we served by more renewable power generators (wind, solar) we would be better protected against unpredictable price spikes in oil and gas markets that may come when political winds blow in an unexpecteddirection.
Even when an investor gets it right on both market and sector direction there are still too many individual stocks that run into totally unexpected problems of their own.