May 2008
21 posts
A characteristic courtesy of Buffett’s written and publicly-spoken word is never saying anything unkind about anyone. Lawrence Cunningham, editor of The Essays of Warren Buffett
May 27th
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May 25th
May 25th
“First, I don’t need it. Secondly, maybe in a bizarre kind of way, I don’t want...”
– Nicolas Berggruen when asked why he no longer got much enjoyment from acquiring more things.
May 25th
A readjustment of investor mentality in the valuation of all three of these investment categories – bonds, stocks, and real estate – would mean a downward adjustment of price of maybe 5% in bonds and perhaps 10% or more in U.S. stocks and commercial real estate. Bill Gross
May 22nd
Buy into a business that’s doing so well an idiot can run it, because sooner or later, one will. The U.S. is sort of like that. Warren Buffett
May 20th
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Disconnecting Distraction →
Kicking the Internet habit.
May 19th
The Giant Pool of Money →
May 18th
ListenIsobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Revolver
May 18th
The greatest cause of which captivity and the decay of the faith, and this blindness wherein we now are, sprang first of allegories. For Origen and the doctors of his time drew all the scripture unto allegories; whose example that came after followed so long, till they at last forgot the order and process of the text, supposing that the Scripture served but to feign allegories upon; insomuch...
May 16th
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MUTO courtesy cpluv 
May 14th
The problem is that you can’t negotiate with a protocol, for the same reason you can’t negotiate with the English language The BitTorrent protocol is a set of technical rules used by desktop software programs to coordinate the peer-to-peer distribution of files. The company BitTorrent Inc. is just one maker of software that uses the protocol—indeed, it’s a relatively minor...
May 13th
May 12th
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Kanye West and Charlie Rose
May 10th
“The smaller capital expenditures, or even fairly large ones at the subsidiaries,...”
– How to decide the cost of capital on a risk-adjusted basis for reinvested capital?
May 9th
“I tell them they have two choices. They can sell it to us, and it’ll be in...”
– Do they love the money, or do they love the business?
May 9th
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