“Do not let anyone else run your business.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor (1973) (Fourth Revised Edition), Chapter 20, "Margin of Safety": The Central Concept, p. 286
“You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.”
Managing, Chapter One (Theory G on Management), p. 13.
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