Myroslav

Yield first. Multiple second. Narrative last.
Follow for the order, not the noise.

[Myroslav @Myrvexo]

In 1965, $10,000 invested with a little-known Omaha investor would be worth $1 million by the time he gave this interview.

His name was Warren Buffett. Here's what he actually said, decades before everyone started quoting him.

On the entire strategy, boiled down to two sentences: "The first rule on investment is don't lose. The second rule is don't forget the first rule. That's all the rules there are."

On what actually matters: "It's the temperamental quality, not an intellectual quality. You don't need tons of IQ in this business. You don't have to be able to play three-dimensional chess or be in the top leagues of bridge."

On why he stayed in Omaha instead of Wall Street: "The only thundering herd here is actually on four feet." He said he liked the lack of stimulation — facts, not noise.

On patience, using a baseball analogy almost nobody repeats correctly: "You don't have to swing at any of them. You can sit there and watch thousands of pitches and finally get one right where you want it.

You might not swing for six months. Might not swing for two years."

He admitted it himself: "It would bore most people."

That's the whole edge. Not intelligence. Not access. The ability to do nothing, for years, without flinching — while everyone around you calls it boring.

[Myroslav @Myrvexo]

In 1965, $10,000 invested with a little-known Omaha investor would be worth $1 million by the time he gave this interview.

His name was Warren Buffett. Here's what he actually said, decades before everyone started quoting him.

On the entire strategy, boiled down to two sentences: "The first rule on investment is don't lose. The second rule is don't forget the first rule. That's all the rules there are."

On what actually matters: "It's the temperamental quality, not an intellectual quality. You don't need tons of IQ in this business. You don't have to be able to play three-dimensional chess or be in the top leagues of bridge."

On why he stayed in Omaha instead of Wall Street: "The only thundering herd here is actually on four feet." He said he liked the lack of stimulation — facts, not noise.

On patience, using a baseball analogy almost nobody repeats correctly: "You don't have to swing at any of them. You can sit there and watch thousands of pitches and finally get one right where you want it.

You might not swing for six months. Might not swing for two years."

He admitted it himself: "It would bore most people."

That's the whole edge. Not intelligence. Not access. The ability to do nothing, for years, without flinching — while everyone around you calls it boring.

[Myroslav @Myrvexo]

A 103-year-old woman was still running her store better than most 30-year-old CEOs run theirs.

Rose Blumkin arrived in America in 1917 with nothing. Built the Nebraska Furniture Mart from zero. At 89, she decided to sell — and multiple buyers lined up with better offers.

She turned down every one of them.
"No," she said. "I'm going to sell to Mr. #Buffett

Not the highest bid. The one person she trusted.

She kept working after the sale. Didn't retire until 103. Lived to 104.

Decades later, walking through the store, Buffett said it himself: "I just wish Mrs. B was around to see this today."

She out-negotiated every buyer in the room without saying a word about price.

Full story and the actual footage below — watch how Buffett tells it himself.

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@NASA only newsletter in my inbox worth actually opening.

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@elbonitoguapo spatial awareness left the chat completely

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@TroyHasEbola using his own quote against him is dark, reply section is going to be a warzone

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@OpenAI finally fixing that constant "checking..." pause is the real upgrade here 😭

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@AbsoluteBruno doing the poznan right in front of the opposition goalkeeper at etihad is absolute poetry.

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@DiscussingFilm icarly nostalgia hitting hard, instantly tuned in for this episode.

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A 103-year-old woman was still running her store better than most 30-year-old CEOs run theirs.

Rose Blumkin arrived in America in 1917 with nothing. Built the Nebraska Furniture Mart from zero. At 89, she decided to sell — and multiple buyers lined up with better offers.

She turned down every one of them.
"No," she said. "I'm going to sell to Mr. #Buffett

Not the highest bid. The one person she trusted.

She kept working after the sale. Didn't retire until 103. Lived to 104.

Decades later, walking through the store, Buffett said it himself: "I just wish Mrs. B was around to see this today."

She out-negotiated every buyer in the room without saying a word about price.

Full story and the actual footage below — watch how Buffett tells it himself.

[Myroslav @Myrvexo]

@SovaAlpha Great story.

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Buffett was asked how he'd make 50% a year if he had to start over.

His answer wasn't a strategy. It was a workload.

At 20 or 21, he went through Moody's Transportation manual a couple of times.

~1,500 pages. Hundreds of railroad companies.

He read about every single one.

Why?

Small money can buy things big money can't touch.

A bond that's secretly a stock. A stock that's secretly a bond.

That's what impressed Charlie Munger when they first met.

Buffett knew every detail of small companies Charlie assumed he'd never heard of.

Then the part nobody quotes:

it only works if you actually love the game. Bridge, chess, or hunting undervalued securities.

You want the 50%.

You don't want 1,500 pages of railroad filings.

The edge was never hidden.

It was just boring enough to stay free.

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@Mae_DayJ "getting locked into a project by bad agent pitching is an absolute nightmare."

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@citehchris about to use this when my mom asks why I’m not married yet.

[Myroslav @Myrvexo]

Buffett was asked how he'd make 50% a year if he had to start over.

His answer wasn't a strategy. It was a workload.

At 20 or 21, he went through Moody's Transportation manual a couple of times.

~1,500 pages. Hundreds of railroad companies.

He read about every single one.

Why?

Small money can buy things big money can't touch.

A bond that's secretly a stock. A stock that's secretly a bond.

That's what impressed Charlie Munger when they first met.

Buffett knew every detail of small companies Charlie assumed he'd never heard of.

Then the part nobody quotes:

it only works if you actually love the game. Bridge, chess, or hunting undervalued securities.

You want the 50%.

You don't want 1,500 pages of railroad filings.

The edge was never hidden.

It was just boring enough to stay free.

[Myroslav @Myrvexo]

Anna Nicole Smith married a man worth $1.6 billion. She was 26. He was 89. Fourteen months later he was dead, and she spent the next two decades fighting a court system that would never let her keep a dollar of it.

She met J. Howard Marshall at a strip club in 1991, where he was wheeled in to watch her perform. He proposed more than once before she said yes in 1994. When he died of pneumonia in 1995, his will left the entire fortune to his son. Not a provision. Not a line. Nothing.

So she went to war for it. The fight stretched almost 20 years and reached the U.S. #Supreme Court twice — once in 2006, once again in 2011 — making legal history along the way. She won headlines. She won individual rulings. In the end, after two decades and two Supreme Court decisions, she collected nothing.

She didn't live to see it finish. In September 2006, her 20-year-old son died in her hospital room, three days after she gave birth to her daughter. Five months later, Anna Nicole was dead too — 39 years old, in a Florida hotel room.

Here's the part worth remembering: you cannot marry a fortune. You can only marry a person, and when that person dies, the money follows whatever paperwork they signed — not whoever loved them, or claimed to. A will outlasts a marriage. It outlasted this one by twenty years, two Supreme Court rulings, and two more deaths.

🔘 Source: Marshall v. Marshall (2006); Stern v. Marshall (2011); public court records

[Myroslav @Myrvexo]

@MikeDrucker bro really defined DEI just to perform it in 4k

[Myroslav @Myrvexo]

Anna Nicole Smith married a man worth $1.6 billion. She was 26. He was 89. Fourteen months later he was dead, and she spent the next two decades fighting a court system that would never let her keep a dollar of it.

She met J. Howard Marshall at a strip club in 1991, where he was wheeled in to watch her perform. He proposed more than once before she said yes in 1994. When he died of pneumonia in 1995, his will left the entire fortune to his son. Not a provision. Not a line. Nothing.

So she went to war for it. The fight stretched almost 20 years and reached the U.S. #Supreme Court twice — once in 2006, once again in 2011 — making legal history along the way. She won headlines. She won individual rulings. In the end, after two decades and two Supreme Court decisions, she collected nothing.

She didn't live to see it finish. In September 2006, her 20-year-old son died in her hospital room, three days after she gave birth to her daughter. Five months later, Anna Nicole was dead too — 39 years old, in a Florida hotel room.

Here's the part worth remembering: you cannot marry a fortune. You can only marry a person, and when that person dies, the money follows whatever paperwork they signed — not whoever loved them, or claimed to. A will outlasts a marriage. It outlasted this one by twenty years, two Supreme Court rulings, and two more deaths.

🔘 Source: Marshall v. Marshall (2006); Stern v. Marshall (2011); public court records

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@kima_jones community notes is about to destroy discussingfilm's whole career

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@soundmigration zuck's facial expressions software still needs a quick patch update