First things first; this book is about 1000 pages. So, you may think that by completing the mammoth task of finishing this book you will accomplish the mammoth task of understanding Warren Buffett. After all he is a business man and not some complicated artist and Warren himself has always made things easy to understand. But the thing about Warren Buffett is that he is easy to understand for a beginner, but has profound depth that will continue to amaze an “expert”.
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Don’t laugh and the whole world laughs at you. Before they invented canned laughter they used to pay a propotion of the audience to laugh at the jokes or applaud at critical parts of the performance. “When in doubt follow the crowd “ – this short cut to do what the majority is doing perhaps best explains why I took up engineering.
If you used to pick up the magazine Sportstar back in the good old 90s , you may remember that against all odds a pole vaulter was a global sports celebrity. Sergi Bubka was so much ahead of his competition that whenever he participated in a major event , the only question was about the margin with which he would win. 
If a strong dollar is vote of confidence in the US economy then why did the dollar climb up while increasingly negative economic indicators were coming out every week? The obvious answer is demand and supply, but who is creating the demand for dollars and who are willing to supply them those dollars. 
