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Speaking of Principles…
“If principles can become dated, they’re not principles.”
— Warren Buffett
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“Those are my principles. And if you don’t like them…I have others.”
— Groucho Marx
Rational Behavior
“When proper temperament joins with proper intellectual framework, then you get rational behavior.”
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Peace of Mind
“As long as I have $20 billion some place, I feel comfortable.”
— Warren Buffett, May 5, 2012 Read more »
Warren Buffett on His Prostate Cancer
“(I feel) terrific. This is really a minor event. The survival numbers are way up. Basically, I seem to have a good immune system. Maybe I’ll get shot by a jealous husband.
“I love what I do. I work with people I love. It’s more fun every day.” Read more »
The Zero Effect
“Over the years, a number of smart people have learned the hard way that a long stream of impressive numbers mulitplied by a single zero always equals zero.”
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One Way to Avoid Peer Pressure…
“Acquire worldy wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group … then to hell with them.”
— Charles Munger Read more »
The Better The Teacher…
“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.
“For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”
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There is That…
“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be the librarians.”
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Fish Walking on Land
“Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it and one day of running a business has exactly the same kind of value.”
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