Lição de vida da autoria de Buffet
Lição de vida da autoria de Buffet
Estive a ler um artigo acerca de uma entrevista que o buffet concedeu a alunos de MBA (postado no ******) e há algumas frases que me parecem lições de vida importantes:
"Buffett's Introductory Speech (paraphrased):
If there's one thing that you leave here with today, it should be this: And I'll start with a question to get to my point. If you could pick 10% of one person in this room to own or 'go long' for the next 30 years, who would it be? It wouldn't be the person with the highest IQ; it wouldn't be the star athlete; you would look for certain other qualities… And if you had to pick one person to 'short' for the next 30 years, who would it be? Now ask yourself why you have made those selections. If you've considered these questions properly, the person you've gone long is probably someone who is honest, courageous, and dependable; the person you've shorted is probably someone who is egotistical and likes to take the credit. The point is that success is mostly dependent upon elective qualities, not anything with which you are born. You can choose to be dependable or not. And it's not easy to change, so choose correctly now. Bertrand Russell once said, "The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they're too heavy to be broken." So ask yourself, "Who do I want to be?" At the end of this process you should determine that the person you want to buy is yourself. You all are holding winning tickets.
A outra parte que queria partilhar era: After our session in his offices, Mr. Buffett treated us to lunch at Gorat's steakhouse about 10 minutes away. Groups of students politely rotated to his table over the course of the meal. The drive over to the restaurant was when the lessons of the trip came together for me. Mr. Buffett took five of us with him in his car, three in the front, three in the back, he drove (no radio) and pointed out some Omaha businesses and landmarks on the way over. Mr. Buffett was so thoroughly disarming, friendly, and apologies for an overused cliché…'down to earth', that I had to remind myself who I was sitting next to. It felt like my friend's dad was driving us home from soccer practice.
"Buffett's Introductory Speech (paraphrased):
If there's one thing that you leave here with today, it should be this: And I'll start with a question to get to my point. If you could pick 10% of one person in this room to own or 'go long' for the next 30 years, who would it be? It wouldn't be the person with the highest IQ; it wouldn't be the star athlete; you would look for certain other qualities… And if you had to pick one person to 'short' for the next 30 years, who would it be? Now ask yourself why you have made those selections. If you've considered these questions properly, the person you've gone long is probably someone who is honest, courageous, and dependable; the person you've shorted is probably someone who is egotistical and likes to take the credit. The point is that success is mostly dependent upon elective qualities, not anything with which you are born. You can choose to be dependable or not. And it's not easy to change, so choose correctly now. Bertrand Russell once said, "The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they're too heavy to be broken." So ask yourself, "Who do I want to be?" At the end of this process you should determine that the person you want to buy is yourself. You all are holding winning tickets.
A outra parte que queria partilhar era: After our session in his offices, Mr. Buffett treated us to lunch at Gorat's steakhouse about 10 minutes away. Groups of students politely rotated to his table over the course of the meal. The drive over to the restaurant was when the lessons of the trip came together for me. Mr. Buffett took five of us with him in his car, three in the front, three in the back, he drove (no radio) and pointed out some Omaha businesses and landmarks on the way over. Mr. Buffett was so thoroughly disarming, friendly, and apologies for an overused cliché…'down to earth', that I had to remind myself who I was sitting next to. It felt like my friend's dad was driving us home from soccer practice.
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