"You don't ever ask a barber whether..." - Quote by Warren Buffett
You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.
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“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”
“I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.”
“Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.”
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“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
“when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.”
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
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“Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.”
“Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions at all levels. The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west.”
“His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.”