Interestingly, Buffet's style is more applicable to an average rich person's (oxymoron?) position then is the investing type of most other uber-investors: Buy or buy stock in companies you want to own.

I see what you are saying and you are right. But this doesn't have to be an argument from authority (he made it, so he knows what he's saying). It can just be about the strength of his ideas regardless of where they come from.