The executives who run companies for Warren E. Buffett know that few things are as sure to anger the legendary investor as dishonesty about how their businesses are performing.

Warren Buffett, the legendary investor, says the United States is destined to become not an "ownership society," but a "sharecropper society."

Even Warren E. Buffett, the legendary American investor, "is just lucky," Mr. Follett said.

He was a brilliant and legendary investor, an erudite scholar and astute collector of antiquities, an enlightened patron of archaeological expeditions, and a philanthropist of generosity and distinction.

Corporate America was led by Warren Buffett of Omaha, the legendary investor.

O'Shaughnessy has been awarded several U.S. patents for his investment strategies and was recognized as a legendary investor by Forbes.com.

And even some people on Wall Street, where Mr. Tisch is known as a legendary investor, wonder about his ways at CBS.

THE mania surrounding the legendary investor Warren E. Buffett and his company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has spawned its own growth industry.

That stocks had become far too expensive has been heard again and again this year, the wisdom of everyone from Mr. Greenspan, to Warren E. Buffett, the legendary investor.

Warren Buffett, the legendary investor, endured a difficult 1999 when his Berkshire Hathaway shares declined amid a bull market focused on technology companies, which Mr. Buffett shuns.