“It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the truth is, business is so much a lower thing than learning, that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.”
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
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“When the mind is busy, the stomach cannot complain of hunger too.”
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1989 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1989.html
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
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“Bred a scholar he made his learning subservient only to the cause of truth.”
Epitaph, as translated from the Latin.
Context: Stop Traveller! Near this place lieth John Locke. If you ask what kind of a man he was, he answers that he lived content with his own small fortune. Bred a scholar he made his learning subservient only to the cause of truth. This thou will learn from his writings, which will show thee everything else concerning him, with greater truth, than the suspect praises of an epitaph. His virtues, indeed, if he had any, were too little for him to propose as matter of praise to himself, or as an example to thee. Let his vices be buried together. As to an example of manners, if you seek that, you have it in the Gospels; of vices, to wish you have one nowhere; if mortality, certainly, (and may it profit thee), thou hast one here and everywhere.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“Why are students learning business from business professors whose businesses failed?”
Christian Canlubo on his twitter https://twitter.com/canlubochris account.
Source: https://twitter.com/canlubochris/status/1236684517823283200 | Christian Canlubo personal Twitter account
Lenovo Group’s Liu Chuanzhi on ‘Building a Healthy Company’ https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/lenovo-groups-liu-chuanzhi-on-building-a-healthy-company/ in Knowledge @ Wharton (8 July 2009)
