There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Interpretation
Humans often complicate simple tasks due to an inherent nature.
This quote from Warren Buffett suggests that there is a tendency within human nature to create unnecessary complexities out of tasks that are fundamentally simple. It highlights a paradox where individuals find pleasure or challenge in making straightforward processes more difficult, which often leads to inefficiency and frustration. Understanding this tendency can encourage us to simplify our approaches and focus on clarity and practicality.
In practice
During a team meeting, to encourage clearer communication, one might say this quote to remind colleagues to focus on simple solutions.
I have no views as to where it will be, but the one thing I can tell you is it won't do anything between now and then except look at you. Whereas, you know, Coca-Cola (KO) will be making money, and I think Wells Fargo (WFC) will be making a lot of money and there will be a lot - and it's a lot - it's a lot better to have a goose that keeps laying eggs than a goose that just sits there and eats insurance and storage and a few things like that.
If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?
Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.
I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. _x000D_ You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
Oneβs objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem wonβt improve with age.
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers.
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