The Best Innovation
The best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company.
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Belt vs. Belt Loops
My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. So which ones the real hero?
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If mutual fund directors are independent, then I’m the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.
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I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful...
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Can an Escalator Break?
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You would never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order...
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When I run into a paradox I think either I’m a total horse’s ass to have gotten to this point,...
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Most people early achieve and later intensify a tendency to process new and disconfirming information so that any original conclusion remains intact.
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There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not...
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Pre-approved Jokes
All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.
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I think there’s some mythology in this idea that I’ve been this great enlightener of Warren. He hasn’t needed much...
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We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought...
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Well, some of our success we predicted and some of it was fortuitous. [Regardless,] like most human beings, we took...
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Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty. It’s not something you do just to advance in life.
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Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can’t derive this by fundamental analysis...
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I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues — they may know a lot of French [however].
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If we mix only a moderate minority share of turds with the raisins each year, probably no one will recognize...
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Don’t be trapped by what others expect or succumb to their options.
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One of the greatest ways to avoid trouble is to keep it simple./blockquote>
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I always like it when someone attractive to me agrees with me.
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Avoid evil, particularly if they’re attractive members of the opposite sex.
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I want to put a ding in the universe.
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It’s human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it’s terrible that managements go along with this.
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Human Pyramids
I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist.
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Everything is important- that success is in the details.
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Bigfoot Is Blurry
I think Bigfoot is blurry, that’s the problem. There’s a large out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside.
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Why You Should Like Rice
I like rice. Rice is great if you’re hungry and want 2000 of something.
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It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
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Innovation is the only way to win.
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The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available — that is a great tradition,...
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When to Start Little League
I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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I think [the design] sucks. Its shape is not innovative, it’s not elegant and it doesn’t feel anthropomorphic.
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Speaking for the Munger heirs, I hope they continue to ring the last drop of good out of Warren.
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Focus is saying no to 1,000 good ideas.
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You’re looking for a mispriced gamble. That’s what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the...
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No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.
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