Show Notes

[00:00:01] - The more I heard Warren speak, the more I learned. Not only about investing, but about business and life.

[00:04:02] - The great personal fortunes in this country weren’t built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business.

[00:05:45] - It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.

[00:08:35] - I don’t try to jump over seven-foot bars; I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.

[00:14:27] - The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

[00:19:00] - My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

[00:22:14] - When management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

[00:23:07] - Managing your career is like investing—the degree of difficulty does not count. So you can save yourself money and pain by getting on the right train.

[00:24:55] - There is a huge difference between the business that grows and requires lots of capital to do so and the business that grows and doesn’t require capital.

[00:27:00] - I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they’re going to look like in ten or fifteen years; time. Take Wrigley’s chewing gum. I don’t think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.

[00:28:50] - You want to learn from experience, but you want to learn from other’s people’s experiences when you can.

[00:29:20] - The really good business manager doesn’t wake up in the morning and say, ‘This is the day that I am going to cut costs,’ any more than he wakes up and decides to practice breathing.

[00:30:07] - A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought / A story from a young Steve Jobs

[00:31:55] - The business schools reward difficult, complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

[00:32:42] - If you let yourself be undisciplined on the small things, you will probably be undisciplined on the large things as well.

[00:35:15] - George Lucas unapologetically invested in what he believed in the most: Himself.

[00:41:15] - No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

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