It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.
The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?
It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.