Tue, Dec 29, 2026

闕黨童子將命。或問之曰：「益者與？」子曰：「吾見其居於位也，見其與先生並行也，非求益者也，欲速成者也。」

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憲問第十四·十四之四七

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善為士者不武， 善戰者不怒， 善勝敵者不與， 善用人者為之下，是謂不爭之德，是謂用人之力， 是謂配天古之極。

Source： https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%81%93%E5%BE%B7%E7%B6%93_%28%E7%8E%8B%E5%BC%BC%E6%9C%AC%29
王弼本·六十八章

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Nevertheless, Charlie, in 1965, promptly advised me: “Warren, forget about ever buying another company like Berkshire. But now that you control Berkshire, add to it wonderful businesses purchased at fair prices and give up buying fair businesses at wonderful prices. In other words, abandon everything you learned from your hero, Ben Graham. It works but only when practiced at small scale.” With much back-sliding I subsequently followed his instructions.

Source： https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2023ltr.pdf
2023 Chairman's Letter, excerpt 2

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上以突厥車鼻可汗不入朝，遣右驍衛郎將高侃發回紇、僕骨等兵襲擊之。兵入其境，諸部落相繼來降。拔悉密吐屯肥羅察降，以其地置新黎州。

Source： https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%B3%87%E6%B2%BB%E9%80%9A%E9%91%91/%E5%8D%B7199
卷199·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝下之下貞觀二十三年（己酉，公元六四九年）·第3则

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And the models have to come from multiple disciplines—because all the wisdom of the world is not to be found in one little academic department.

Source： https://web.archive.org/web/20140625062802/http://ycombinator.com/munger.html
Archived transcript, paragraph 9 (beginning “And the models have to come from multiple disciplines”)