ClaimsWarren Buffett

“will be given a special credential and instructions for attending this function.”

Warren Buffett, Chairman, letter author 2007 Berkshire Hathaway 2006 Letter to Shareholders (Berkshire Hathaway) archived copy

Promise Their own work or organisation

Any shareholder coming from outside the U.S. or Canada will be given a special credential and instructions for attending the reception.

Own records only Only the person's or their organisation's own records speak to it, so it is not scored.

Promise: Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

Whether each foreign shareholder received credentials and instructions is only in Berkshire's internal records.

Cite this claim

Warren Buffett, “Any shareholder coming from outside the U.S. or Canada will be given a special credential and instructions for attending the reception.” (said 2007). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_817f37570fef, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_817f37570fef

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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  3. Mostly true Promise 2025
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  4. Resolved false Promise 5 May 2024
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  5. Delivered on time Promise 27 February 2017
    “We're going to have the same contest among our employees that we had last year.”

    Berkshire will run the same NCAA bracket contest among its employees in 2017 as it did in 2016.

All of them

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