Editor’s note : This is a guest post from Courtney Carver of Be More with Less. When I was 16, I wanted more. When I was 24, I wanted even more than that. So, I worked harder, earned more, spent more, to have more, only to owe more. I was exhausted at the end of the day and tired when I woke up most…

“I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years,” Steve Martin recalls in his 2007 memoir, Born Standing Up. “Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success.” If you do the math, this sums to fourteen years of hard work before Martin saw returns…

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Jan 6, 2010 Deliberate Practice: Becoming a Better Investor (from one of my favorite films: Searching for Bobby Fischer ) In 2009, Charlie Munger recommended Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers which studiers outliers throughout history and discipline to find commonalities. One of the ideas professed…

On a recent airplane flight, I happened to catch the movie Groundhog Day . Again. If you aren't familiar with this classic film, the premise is simple: Bill Murray, somehow, gets stuck reliving the sa

It's hard to spend a fortune without noticing. Someone with ordinary tastes would find it hard to blow through more than a few tens of thousands of dollars without thinking "wow, I'm spending a lot of money." Whereas if you start trading derivatives, you can lose a million dollars (as much as you…

Warren Buffett with BYD's E6. The car came straight to Omaha from the Detroit auto show. BYD CEO Wang Chuan-Fu figured out how to make cheaper batteries than the Japanese by replacing machines with mi

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Many of you enjoyed my previous transcript of a talk Li Lu gave at Columbia University. Thanks to Joe Koster, you can now view a more recent lecture he gave to Bruce Greenwald’s value investing class in April of 2010. Based on Berkshire’s investment in BYD, the fact that Lu manages Charlie Munger’s…

This past weekend was the Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A / BRK.B ) annual shareholder meeting. At one point during the Q&A, a questioner asked Warren Buffett about the status of Berkshire’s CIO candidates. Charlie Munger remarked that one candidate who he is particular close with was up 200% in…

If you have an app available, you probably have an accompanying website for it. As someone who tries and buys a lot of software, I see many such websites during the average week. Some are great, but m

Translator’s note: I have attempted to balance maintaining the author’s original style of writing and making a grammatically correct English translation. Obviously, a word-for-word translation would have serious readability issues. As such, I have rewritten Chinese idioms and broken up a few…

December 31, 2009 Voting for the worst footnote of 2009 ended last night and footnoted readers have chosen the disclosure by Chesapeake Energy (CHK) that it had spent $12.1 million to purchase Chairma

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