A Few Important Questions For You (And Some Thoughts About Buffett)
The Morgan Housel Podcast
Morgan Housel
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One of my favorite quotes is from David Packard, who once said, more businesses die of indigestion |
| 0:06.2 | than of starvation. I see this all the time. It is so common with money, whether it is for you |
| 0:12.2 | individually or for your business, that people get so tangled up in the big complex projects |
| 0:17.3 | that they drop the ball on the small stuff. To do well over time, you have to get the |
| 0:22.1 | simple stuff right first. And one of those fundamentals in business that often gets overlooked |
| 0:27.7 | is expense management. And that is why 25,000 businesses use Ramp. Ramp is a corporate |
| 0:34.9 | card that includes the best expense tracking and reporting software that |
| 0:38.7 | I have ever seen. It makes expense management so simple by automatically capturing every |
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| 1:08.0 | Before I start today, let me say a couple words about some of the biggest business news that has occurred. |
| 1:13.7 | If you are an investor or following investing like I have for many years, which is that Warren Buffett announced his retirement. |
| 1:19.9 | He's going to be leaving Berkshire Hathaway at the end of this year. |
| 1:22.7 | So much has already been said. |
| 1:24.1 | A lot of it interesting, some of it not so interesting. |
| 1:26.6 | I want to add just a |
| 1:27.7 | couple of comments that I think were most important to me about Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, |
| 1:33.6 | which are the things that I think are repeatable, that you and I can actually learn from and do |
| 1:38.8 | something about. Because so much of the commentary about Warren Buffett, what can you learn from |
| 1:42.3 | them are things that you and I can't actually implement in our own lives. They're either too complicated. They take too much time. |
| 1:50.0 | They're only worked for someone who's devoting 24 hours a day to investing, or they are lessons. |
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