You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.
Interpretation
Saying no is essential to managing your time effectively and prioritizing your own goals.
Warren Buffett emphasizes the importance of personal agency and time management in this quote. He suggests that if you allow others to dictate how you spend your time, you risk losing sight of your own priorities and goals. By learning to say no, you maintain control over your schedule and ensure that you focus on what truly matters to you.
In practice
In a motivational speech about time management.
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.
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.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.
I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.
My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.
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