Alice Schroeder, former Wall Street analyst and author, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
- Warren Buffett’s secrets to success:
- Pattern recognition: The man has 50 years of experience. He’s seen it all.
- Focus and intensity: 18 hours a day for decades
- Geography: He’s not located in the middle of the herd (NYC/Boston/CA)
- Time horizon: He’s not playing in the quarterly rat race; he can let markets play out
- Conservative enough that errors don’t kill him: Don’t lose money is rule #1
- Read excerpts of The Snowball here >
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