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What's in a Berkshire Hathaway Share, Anyway?

Analytical Chemist submits:

Warren Buffett is an avid customer of NetJets, a Berkshire Hathway subsidiary (BRK.A). We can only speculate whether he is as avid a customer of Fruit of the Loom. We are, however, aware that Warren Buffett is a tremendously successful investor. He turned a purchase of then-textile manufacturer Berkshire Hathaway in 1964 into what is today a large conglomerate; owning businesses from insurance companies to a railroad. Berkshire is currently the 8th most valuable company in the United States (nestled just behind Google (GOOG) and ahead of Wal-Mart (WMT)).

Berkshire is no longer a textile manufacturer, it completely exited that business in 1985. Starting in 1967 with the purchase of National Indemnity, Berkshire began a series of acquisitions. Many have been insurance companies, and many people think of Berkshire primarily as an insurer. But Warren Buffett has shown a wide and varying array of corporate interests, to the point that

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