"I knew a lot about what I..." - Quote by Warren Buffett
I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.
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“We intend to continue our practice of working only with people whom we like and admire. This policy not only maximizes our chances for good results, it also ensures us an extraordinarily good time.”
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“There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.”
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“The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.”
“We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.”
“I am a part of everything that I have read.”