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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Intensity is the price of excellence.
from The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
sari added 2y ago
Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in
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The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard. I always pose it this way. I say: ‘Lookit. Would you rather be the world’s greatest lover, but have everyone think you’re the world’s worst lover? Or would you rather be the world’s wor
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Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
from The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
sari added 2y ago
I learned that it pays to hang around with people better than you are, because you will float upward a little bit. And if you hang around with people that behave worse than you, pretty soon you’ll start sliding down the pole. It just works that way.
from The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
sari added 2y ago