Who are your role models?
“Choose your heroes very carefully and then emulate them. You will never be perfect, but you can always be better.”
– Famed investor Warren Buffett in his annual Thanksgiving letter. This year’s edition is filled with more reminiscences and life advice than usual as Buffet, now 95 years old, will retire as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at year’s end. Read the whole letter at bit.ly/49sgtrc.
What could go wrong?
“There’s enough leverage in today’s financial markets. Don’t add to it by borrowing from your own future.”
– Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig, in an 11/21/25 response to social media “finfluencers” who are urging people to claim Social Security as early as possible and invest the money in the stock market. More at bit.ly/4oVbMLx.
Bears follow bulls as surely as night follows day
“Bull markets make you feel smarter than you really are. Bear markets make you feel dumber than you really are…This cycle will not last forever. Making money won’t always be this easy. The market will make you feel dumb again at some point…even when it’s not true.”
– Ben Carlson, in an 11/9/25 post on his blog, A Wealth of Common Sense. Read more at bit.ly/48owQE9.
