Warren Buffet and David duel over Depreciation.

David Barnett
1 min readMar 31, 2021

The difference between one truck and 500.

Dan was watching an old video of mine about valuing small businesses and posed a question about something Warren Buffet says.

Basically, Buffet doesn’t like EBITDA valuations because he doesn’t believe that little fairies will pay for the equipment and machinery used in a business.

But, as I teach in this week’s video… the depreciation figure you see on the paper is NOT the way to ward off the magic fairies…

Learn the answer to this question and more in this week’s video: https://youtu.be/_S2m1dieX6w

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David Barnett

I write about Buying, Selling, Financing and Managing Small and Medium Sized Businesses SMEs www.DavidCBarnett.com New Stuff weekly, usually on Wednesday.