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To: Return to Sender who wrote (4266)	7/24/2002 12:12:51 PM
From: The Ox	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 95383

More on options from Mr. Buffett Message 17787228 ...For these C.E.O.'s I have a proposition: Berkshire Hathaway will sell you insurance, carpeting or any of our other products in exchange for options identical to those you grant yourselves. It'll all be cash-free. But do you really think your corporation will not have incurred a cost when you hand over the options in exchange for the carpeting? Or do you really think that placing a value on the option is just too difficult to do, one of your other excuses for not expensing them? If these are the opinions you honestly hold, call me collect. We can do business....