"Can you really explain to a fish what it's like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value."
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Warren Buffett as quoted in The Warren Buffett Way 3rd Edition (2024) by Robert G. Hagstrom, Ch. 6, p. 232
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