Spread knowledge
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023)
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Together
Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much. Helen Keller - American deaf-blind writer (1880-1968), from a hoily, published in "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy" (1980)
Important, but not measurable
You’ve got a complex system and it spews out a lot of wonderful numbers that enable you to measure some factors. But there are other factors that are terribly important, [yet] there’s no precise numbering you can put to these factors. You know they’re important, but you don’t have the numbers. Well practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the...
Lesson for life
You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing. John W. Gardner - American politician and philanthropist, 1965-1968 Secretary of Health, Education, and...
Friends
There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met. Irish proverb, based in the poem "Faith" (1913) by Edgar A. Guest (British-American poet, 1881-1959)
Sólo Dios Basta
Nada te turbe, nada te espante, todo se pasa; Dios no se muda. La paciencia todo lo alcanza. Qien a Dios tiene nada le falta. Sólo Dios Basta. Teresa de Àvila - mística y monja católica española (1515-1582), del poema "Nada te Turbe", que se encontró junto a ella tras su muerte y que ahora forma parte de los "Cantos de Taizé" Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing affright you. All things are...
More blessed to give than to receive
It is more blessed to give than to receive. The Bible, Acts 20:35 (NIV)
Know your limits
No matter how skillfully you climb a tree, you can never get higher than its crown. Haruki Murakami - Japanese writer (b. 1949), from "The City and Its Uncertain Walls", part III ("街とその不確かな壁", 2023)
Responsible
Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become. wisdom
Cost awareness
Our experience has been that the manager of an already high-cost operation frequently is uncommonly resourceful in finding new ways to add to overhead while the manager of a tightly-run operation usually continues to find additional methods to curtail costs, even when his costs are already well below those of his competitors. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire...
Top performance
Our managers have produced extraordinary results by doing rather ordinary things—but doing them exceptionally well. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (*1930), in his letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders (1987)
Keep it simple
The most elusive of human goals: Keeping things simple and remembering what you set out to do. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (*1930), in his letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders (1982)
Compact
A compact organization lets all of us spend our time managing the business rather than managing each other. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (*1930), in his letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders (1982)
Act like an owner
Just run your business as if: (1) You own 100% of it; (2) It is the only asset in the world that you and your family have or will ever have; and (3) You can't sell it for at least a century. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (*1930), in his letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders (1998)
Short and sweet
The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (*1930), in his letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders (1994)
Good spouse
The best way to get a good spouse is to deserve one. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), at the Daily Journal Annual Meeting 2017
Artificial Intelligence
I'm all for Artificial Intelligence, as there is such a shortage of the real thing. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023)
Investing
If [investing] weren't a little difficult, everybody would be rich. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), from "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor" (2015)
Luck
Luck is the chair that suddenly appears when you try to sit between two others. attributed to George Bernard Shaw – Irish writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1925 (1856-1950)
God’s hands
I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all. But whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess. falsely attributed to Martin Luther - German reformer (1483-1546), was classified as "inauthentic" by experts of the Martin Luther Foundation