2002.05.03 - Austin Chronicle - The Johnson Treatment
- Caro revealed that Johnson openly bragged that he was interested only in taking out coeds who had rich daddies. During college, Johnson firmly attached himself to C.E. Evans, the lonely bachelor president. Early on, Caro noted Johnson's proclivity to make allies of older men he could flatter and use to get ahead.
- Johnson was practiced at attaching himself to older, powerful men, but in the person of Richard Russell he had met his match. Russell didn't roll over when Johnson flattered him or accompanied the older man to baseball games

Monitor whether they're going to be teaching a class

1984 - Warren Buffett - The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville
- A common theme: they heard a successful guy was giving a class, they took the class, then they tried to get a job with Graham (with the possible exception of Ruane).

Send them letters / emails with profitable ideas

Just like Mike Burry with Joel Greenblatt, Warren attracted the attention of big-shot Ben Graham by sending him investment ideas over the course of several years. Source:
24:14 - "...but I kept pestering him; I sold securities for three years, and I kept writing him and giving him ideas and doing all these things...finally I went to work for him for a couple of years."

I should get copies of the book on predicting the weather and the books on castles that I can give away as gifts.