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Can you really explain to a fish what it's like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.
Warren Buffett
— Warren Buffett
Investor, Berkshire Hathaway
As quoted in The Warren Buffett Way 3rd Edition (2024) by Robert G. Hagstrom, Ch. 6, p. 232

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