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Warren Buffett once bought a dying textile company out of spite over 12.5 cents a share. He later called it his $200 billion mistake.

In 1962, Buffett started buying shares of Berkshire Hathaway, a struggling New England textile maker. The stock was cheap, around $7.50, and the company kept closing mills.

In 1964, the CEO Seabury Stanton asked him a simple question: at what price would you sell your shares back to us?

Buffett said $11.50. Stanton agreed.

A few weeks later, the official offer arrived in the mail. The price was $11.375.

Buffett was furious. Instead of selling, he kept buying until he controlled the company. In 1965 he took over and fired Stanton.

He had won the fight. He was now the owner of a textile business he knew was dying.

For 20 years he poured money into the mills. In 1985 he finally shut them down.

In a 2010 interview, Buffett said that if he had put that money straight into insurance instead, Berkshire would have been worth about $200 billion more.

Then he kept the name anyway. The company built on his angriest decision went on to become one of the most valuable businesses in America.

The most famous investor in history built his empire inside a company he bought out of revenge.

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@SecScottBessent @TreasurerBeach @usmint A 20 year high in Mint sales, and the reason given is demand for a single coin. That's not a broad recovery in collectibles, that's one product carrying the whole number. Curious how much of the $1 billion is the Trump coin versus everything else.

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Every smart scale says it tracks body fat. Very few explain how. Bioimpedance sends a tiny current through your feet and estimates from there. It's a guess dressed up as a number. The real question is whether it's consistent enough to track a trend, and this one might actually be.

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@KobeissiLetter Genuine question: how long can sellers hold out?

Inventory keeps rising, buyers keep disappearing, and mortgage rates aren't exactly helping. At some point someone blinks. Is it sellers cutting prices, or is it the Fed cutting rates first?

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@garrxttt Tariffs are a wall, not a fix. You can block Chinese cars at the border, but you can't block the reason they're cheap.

Cheap steel, cheap aluminum, cheap energy, cheap factories. Until the US fixes those inputs, tariffs just mean Americans pay more for worse cars.

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@XEthanai Rogan brought a compound bow to a truck made of the same steel SpaceX uses for rockets. What exactly was the expected outcome here? 😂

Elon collecting that $1 is the most Elon thing ever.

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@BoringBiz_ 5% of OpenAI for $50M when it was still a nonprofit with no product. Most LPs would've hung up the phone.

That's the whole job. You get paid for being early and being right when everyone else thinks you're crazy. The returns just look obvious in hindsight.

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@georgeyitb The $6.80 story gets repeated because it's inspiring. But the part that actually matters is what he said about therapy.

Success doesn't delete the fear. It just gives you better tools to manage it. Most people don't want to admit that, even after they've made it.

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The wildest part isn't the $300K a hand. It's that Cedric brought $1,000 to a table where Jordan and Barkley were playing for more than most people's annual salary.

That's the real lesson here. You don't play in someone else's league just because they invited you. The stakes aren't the game, the stakes are the point.

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@GnryEx Genuine question: could you actually hold one stock for 38 years without selling?

Everyone says yes until the first 40% drawdown. Then suddenly "the thesis changed." What's the longest you've actually held a single position?

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Look at what's actually on this list: oil majors, pharma, payments, consumer staples, and a few beaten-down retailers.

This isn't a "risk-on" rally. This is money rotating into cash-flow businesses with dividends and moats. Defensive leadership at 52-week highs is a signal, not a coincidence.

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The honest answer is both, but not in the way people think.

Buying the number was shrewd. Signing personally for $7M in hidden debt without due diligence was reckless. What saved him wasn't genius — it was AT&T deciding to run his ad for free during the Olympics.

Shrewd men don't skip the lawyers. Lucky men get saved by phone companies.

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The most honest line here is "SMCI is the one I like the least." Most people post their buys like they're all high-conviction. Admitting you bought the weakest name because it's near a 3-month low is real trader behavior.

AVGO and TSM as decade holds, SMCI as a bounce trade — that's a clear thesis, not a wish.

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@unusual_whales Boomers: $99K = success.
Gen Z: $587K = success.
That's not a generational divide. That's a 6x difference in what "making it" means. Something changed, and it wasn't just expectations.

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@coinbureau The net number hides the real story: 36M jobs gone, 41M created. That sounds fine until you realize the 41M require different skills, different cities, and different credentials than the 36M.

Net positive on a spreadsheet. Brutal on a 47-year-old warehouse worker.

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@hxxntrr The Ocala loss is the most important line in this whole story. $11,000 gone, sitting for 11 months.

That's the moment he built the rules. Everyone loves the $287K year. Nobody talks about the deal that taught him the $60K cap.

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@levifizg "Survive the dips" is easy to say when you're not the one down 40% from the top.

The people who get filthy rich are the ones who bought when everyone else was too scared to. Not the ones who posted memes on the way up.

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@cryptorover "Survive the dips" is easy to say when you're not the one down 40% from the top.

The people who get filthy rich are the ones who bought when everyone else was too scared to. Not the ones who posted memes on the way up.

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@levifizg Real question: would you have pressed charges?

Most people say yes instantly. But then you remember she was "almost like a mother to him." Money vs. family — there's no clean answer here. Curious what people actually think.

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@BullTheoryio Let's put this in perspective: $6 billion buyback on a $30 trillion Treasury market. That's a 0.02% intervention.

The bond market isn't dumb. It sees the fiscal math. You can't buy back your way out of a structural deficit problem.