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All seem to have one thing, or rather one person, in common: J. Ernest Talley. The 56-year-old Arkansas native is the proverbial fountainhead of rent-to-own. He began building the first chain of RTO stores in the 1960s, sold them and got out of the business by the mid-'70s, and re-entered rent-to-own as the 1990s began. Nearly every major dealer who has contributed to…Read more... The secret of sound investing can be distilled into three words, margin of safety... Every corporate security may best be viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.

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