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Making Better Predictions

The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people.

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Investing

Be Consistently Not Stupid

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like [Warren Buffett and myself] have gotten by trying to be consistently...

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Steve Jobs Quote: In the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something is transmitted there.

Making Something with Care and Love

And you never meet the people, you never shake their hands, you never hear their story or tell yours, but...

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Do I Know You?

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know too well.

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The Earth’s Carrying Capacity

People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.

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Getting What You Deserve

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and...

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A Rule of Law for Kleptocracies

As for what we like least, we don’t want kleptocracies. We need a rule of law. If people are stealing...

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Business

Apple’s Roots

The roots of Apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn’t need another Dell or...

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Why Some People Cling to Hatred

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is...

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Hatred
Pain

To Share or Not to Share

I like Kit-Kat, unless I’m with four or more people.

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Lisa vs. Mac

The Lisa people wanted to do something great. And the Mac people want to do something insanely great. The difference...

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Innovation

Steve Jobs Quote: A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Show Them What They Want

But in the end, for something this complicated, it’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of...

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Steve Jobs Quote: I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves.

Great Artists and Engineers

I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In...

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Self-expression

No One Wants to Die

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.

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Making People Better

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and...

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Avoiding the Word ‘Synergy’

The reason we avoid the word “synergy” is because people generally claim more synergistic benefits than will come.

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Business

Money Management Today

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can’t do and like something...

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Effective Leadership

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

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Leadership

A Good Manager

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim...

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Leadership

Who Wants the Best for You?

Make friends with people who want the best for you.

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Calculating vs. Thinking

People calculate too much and think too little.

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How to Spend Money

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

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Humor
Money

Rebelling Against Microsoft

Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.

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David vs. Goliath

It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn’t compete with six people in blue...

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Fair Compensation Systems

It is easy to have fair compensation systems, but about half of companies have grossly unfair systems in which the...

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Business

Where Does Innovation Come From?

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a...

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Know Your Aptitudes

You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes...

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Self-knowledge

A Perspective on Life

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

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Life

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Don’t Be Trapped by Dogma

Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

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Always Tell People Why

If you always tell people why, they’ll understand it better, they’ll consider it more important, and they’ll be more likely...

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Processing New and Disconfirming Information

Most people early achieve and later intensify a tendency to process new and disconfirming information so that any original conclusion...

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Investing

You Need Curiosity

If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won’t do it — you need a...

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Hire People You Can Trust

Hiring people you can’t trust is like starting off by dropping a spider in your bosom.

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Business

Whatever You’re Doing to Succeed

I’m used to people with very high IQs knowing how to recognize reality, but there’s a huge human tendency where...

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Success

Passion vs. Competence

What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshire is full of people who have a peculiar passion...

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Business

Make the Best Things in the World

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

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Valuable Insights in a Competitive World

Even bright people are going to have limited, really valuable insights in a very competitive world when they’re fighting against...

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Business

Tell Us What To Do

It doesn’t make sense to hire good people and tell them what to do; we hire good people so they...

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Closed-bid Auctions

The problem with closed bid auctions is that they are frequently won by people making a technical mistake.

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Investing

Capitalism’s Spikes

When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that’s capitalism.

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Investing

Three Rules for a Career

Three rules for a career: 1. Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2. Don’t work for anyone you don’t...

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Business

The Heart and Soul of Business

All we are is our ideas or people. That’s what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang...

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You Don’t Need PowerPoint

People who know what they are talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

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Out-thinking People

It’s kind of fun to sit there and out-think people who are way smarter than you are because you’re trained...

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Business

Mitch Hedberg quote Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes

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Business

Smart People Do Dumb Things

Smart people do dumb things.

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Life Lessons

Doers vs. Thinkers

The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the...

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