I had strong and diversified tastes, much zeal for whatever interested me, and a keen pleasure in understanding any complex subject or thing.

“You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don’t have the cast of mind, you’re destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.”

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“I have a habit in life. I observe what works and what doesn’t and why.”1429

“I do it automatically…If you have that temperament, you will gradually learn. If you don’t, then I can’t help you.”

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“Too soon old and too late smart.”

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“I always ask myself how much it would cost to compete effectively with a business.”1372

“You give me a billion dollars and tell me to go into the chewing gum business and try to make a real dent in Wrigley’s. I can’t do it. That is how I think about businesses. I say to myself, give me a billion dollars and how much can I hurt the guy?”

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“I’ve heard Warren say since very early in his life that the difference between a good business and a bad one is that a good business throws up one easy decision after another, whereas a bad one gives you horrible choices — decisions that are extremely hard to make: ‘Can it work?’ ‘Is it worth the money?”’

“One way to determine which is the good business and which is the bad one is to see which one is throwing management bloopers — pleasant, no-brainer decisions — time after time after time. For example, it’s not hard for us to decide whether or not we want to open a See’s store in a new shopping center in California. It’s going to succeed. That’s a blooper.”

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“The margin of safety in a great business is that it will stand a fair amount of mismanagement if that unfortunate circumstance happens to come along.”

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“The test of a franchise is what a smart guy with a lot of money could do to it if he tried.. .The real test of a business is how much damage a competitor can do, even if he is stupid about returns.”

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“Understanding the economic characteristics of a business is different than predicting the fact that an industry is going to do wonderfully.”

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“The trick is to have no competitors. That means having a product that truly differentiates itself307…advantages that other people can’t copy1308…You can develop a good restaurant and somebody can come along and copy it the next day and figure out something new to add to the menu or add a little more parking. People are always looking at successful models and going after them. That’s terrific for the consumer. It can be very brutal to be in those kinds of businesses”

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“Ben Graham taught me 45 years ago that in investing it is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. In later life, I have been surprised to find that this statement holds true in business management as well. What a manager must do is handle the basics well and not get diverted.”

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“Any time you can charge more for a product and maintain or increase market share against well entrenched, well known competitors, you know that you have something very special in people’s minds.”1284

“You can almost measure the strength of a business over time by the agony its managers go through in determining whether a price increase can be sustained. You can learn a lot about the durability of the economics of a business by observing the price behaviour.”

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I think the one thing that we did that worked best of all.. we were always dissatisfied with what we already knew- we wanted to know more. If Warren and I had stayed frozen in time, Berkshire would have been a terrible place. It's only that we kept learning that made it work. and I don't think that'll ever stop.

There's so much to learn. Learning what works and what dones't work, where value resides and where value doesn't reside.

And I don't see how you can wise up all the time if you aren't working at it.

I constantly see people rise in life who were not the smartest, sometime not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines.. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were that morning. And boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

There's nothing remarkable about it. I don't have any wonderful insights that other people don't have. Just slightly more consitently than others, I've avoided idiocy.. And I'm trying to be is be non-idiotic. I find that that's all you have to do to get ahead in life is to be non-idoitic and live a long time.

It really is simple - just avoid doing the dumb things. Avoiding the dumb things is the most important.

It is a huge error to try and measure every deal against the best deal you've every made. Market conditions and opportunity costs are different in every case. We each have to do what is available at any given time. The goal is not to make the greatest deal you've ever made - it's to make the best deal you can make at that time.

The more attarctive things are, the higher the bar is. Berkshire has raised the opportunity cost bar by looking at stocks, bonds, private companies, public companies, etc. We have more opportunities by operating in a wider range.

The danger is that you have more risk of operating outside of your circle of competence. I don't think we're ever gone outside our circle of competence. We find things across a fairly wide range that we think is within our circle of competency.

For an ordinary individual, the best thing you already have should be your measuring stick. If the new things isn't better than what you already know is available, then it hasn't met your threshld. And that screens out 99% of what you see. If the new opportunity is not better, why should you seize it?

The correct persuasive technique in situations like that was given by Ben franklin. He said, If you would persuade, appeal to interest, not to reaosn.

The self-serving bias of man is extreme, and should have been used in attaining the correct outcomes. So the general counsel should have said, “Look, this is likely to erupt into something that will destroy you, take away your money, take away your status, grossly impair your reputation. My recommendation will prevent a likely disaster from which you can’t recover.”
That approach would have worked. You should often appeal to interest, not to reason, even when your motives are lotfy.

I coped in my time by identifying people I admired and by maneuvering, mostly without criticizing anybody, so that I was usually working under the right sort of people. A lot of law firms will permit that if you're shrewd enough to work it out with some tact. Generally, your outcome in life will be satisfactory if you work under people you correctly admire.

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The major lesson is "ignorance removal" and the notion that decision-making is not about making briliant decision, but avoiding terrible ones.

Like Einstein, both have a remarkable ability to eliminate folly and superficaliality and get directly to the heart of things.

必须更相信理性主义，相信人类思维的合理运作。

应该致力于为每个问题找到正确的答案。

每过完一天，要努力比早上醒来时更聪明一点点。

我把一天中最好的时间用于获取智慧、提升自己。

我遇到的聪明人，没有不每天阅读的，一个都没有。

反过来想，总是反过来想。

怨天尤人、牢骚不断，只能越来越苦、越来越难。

文明所能达到的最高形式应该是无缝的信任之网。

身处逆境的时候，要有一股咬紧牙关、埋头苦干的拚劲。

如果你知道你会死在哪里，那你就永远不去那个地方。

有一贤妻相伴，三两知己同行，一生足矣。

我的剑传给能挥舞它的人。

我认为体验和事实对我来说很重要，你经历各种经历、各种体验很重要。你能够有自由、有能力去帮助和影响别人。而我作为“一个人”的效用就是：一是你的体验，二是你对别人的影响。

不同阶段不一样。比如你身体不好的时候，健康是重要的。对我来说，自由、健康、公司发展、家人朋友健康，包括能够更有能力去帮助人，把困扰我的问题想得更清楚等等，这些都是效用。