What I learned from reading The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells The New Hollywood by Tom King
He told me he had recently read Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, Buffett was Geffen's hero.
Geffen—with searing focus, unyielding drive, and outlandish nerve—had devised and implemented strategies to propel himself to the top of the h…