What controls your aversions and desires controls you. And if that person is not you, it doesn't matter how strong you are, how rich you are, how famous you are, how powerful you are, you are a slave.
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Any fundamental analysis of Tesla requires holding dozens of contradictory concepts in the mind at the same time. Perhaps that's why hardly anyone still bothers. Their forecasts are pretty much guaranteed to be wrong: And, since there's no evidence that earnings matter, what exactly is the point of forecasts?
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The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something that it's hard or impossible for you to do to them. Every year they get harder and harder to compete with. They have an ever-widening moat around their castle, and the key is not 'how big is the castle today?' but 'what is the trajectory of the moat?'
Warren Buffett — Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
The naturalist is not the man who observes most, but the man who is most astonished by what he observes. To see the ordinary with extraordinary eyes — that is the whole of science.
Jean Rostand — The Substance of Man