“Our preaching was better than our performance. (We neglected the Noah principle: predicting rain doesn’t count, building arks does.)” -1981 letter”
― Gems from Warren Buffett: Wit and Wisdom from 34 Years of Letters to Shareholders
― Gems from Warren Buffett: Wit and Wisdom from 34 Years of Letters to Shareholders
“Our inability to pinpoint a number doesn’t bother us: We would rather be approximately right than precisely wrong.”
― Gems from Warren Buffett: Wit and Wisdom from 34 Years of Letters to Shareholders
― Gems from Warren Buffett: Wit and Wisdom from 34 Years of Letters to Shareholders
“We neither understand the adding of unneeded people or activities because profits are booming, nor the cutting of essential people or activities because profitability is shrinking. That kind of yo-yo approach is neither business-like nor humane.” -1987 letter”
― Gems from Warren Buffett: Wit and Wisdom from 34 Years of Letters to Shareholders
― Gems from Warren Buffett: Wit and Wisdom from 34 Years of Letters to Shareholders
“No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: you can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
― Gems from Warren Buffett: Wit and Wisdom from 34 Years of Letters to Shareholders
― Gems from Warren Buffett: Wit and Wisdom from 34 Years of Letters to Shareholders
“An iron law of business is that growth eventually dampens exceptional economics.”
― Gems from Warren Buffett: Wit and Wisdom from 34 Years of Letters to Shareholders
― Gems from Warren Buffett: Wit and Wisdom from 34 Years of Letters to Shareholders
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