Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.
Warren BuffettI can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.
Warren BuffettObserving that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.
Warren BuffettNevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This might not be true for my own personal results, but it is likely to be true for your results.
Warren BuffettYou ought to be able to explain why youโre taking the job youโre taking, why youโre making the investment youโre making, or whatever it may be. And if it canโt stand applying pencil to paper, youโd better think it through some more. And if you canโt write an intelligent answer to those questions, donโt do it.
Warren Buffett