Warren Buffet Speaks...let's take heed..

Would like to share some key insights from the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Event in May 2020. These are my top 3 favorites:

Quote 1:

If you print bonds in your own currency, what happens to the currency is it can be a question because you don't default. And the United States has been smart enough and people have trusted us enough to issue, which is that in its own currency and Argentina is now having a problem because the debt isn't in their own currency and lots of countries have had that problem. And lots of competent countries will have that problem in the future. It is very painful to owe money in somebody else's currency, but listen, if I could issue a currency Buffet bucks and I had a printing press and I could borrow money, I would never default. So what you end up getting in terms of purchasing power can be in doubt.

Quote 2:

If you really had a farm, and you had this neighbor, and one day he offered you $2,000 an acre, and the next day he offers you $1,200 an acre, and maybe the day after that he offers you $800 an acre, are you really going to feel that at $2,000 an acre when you had evaluated what the farm would produce, are you going to let this guy drive you into thinking, "I better sell because this number keeps coming in lower all the time"? It's a very, very, very important matter to bring the right psychological approach to owning common stocks.

QUOTE 3

Well we don't know. We don't know how long this period lasts. And nobody knows. Most people think, and they know more about it than I do, that the virus will, to some extent, decline in it's spread during summer months. And I would say a good many think, that it will come back at some later date. And how the American public reacts if they get their hopes up through some summer diminution and how they would react to a second attack, in effect by the virus. It's like Dr Fauci... the virus is going to determine our behavior in a way. And we're doing a lot of smart things and we've got a lot of very smart people, but there are unknowns. And the unknowns that apply to the health aspect create unknowns in the economy. And we'll have to keep evaluating things as we go along. I hope, like crazy obviously, that once suppressed that it doesn't come back and that we readjust. But things don't always work perfectly. That doesn't mean there was a better course of action that would not... I would not go around criticizing people at all for what they've done or anything of the sort. I just think you're dealing with a huge unknown. And I think that the degree to which it's disturbed the world and changed habits and endangered businesses in the last couple of months indicates that you better, not be too sure of yourself about what it'll do in the next six months or year or whatever.

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