"If you're in a card game and..." - Quote by Warren Buffett
If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.
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“The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.”
“Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money”
“If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.”
More on Awareness
“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.”
“For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.”
“when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.”
More on Risk
“I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.”
“People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.”
“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.”