One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.
Interpretation
Act promptly and correctly to solve problems before they worsen.
Warren Buffett emphasizes the importance of taking timely and effective action in addressing issues. He suggests that procrastination or delaying decisions only allows problems to escalate, thus advocating for a proactive approach in both personal and professional matters.
In practice
In a business meeting discussing project deadlines, this quote could stress the need for efficient decision-making.
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.
Accounting is the language of business.
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.
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