I would get therapy in my early 20s.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’d have made more of my education.
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I would become fitter younger. Because I would have been hotter younger!
Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
In particular, my decision to sell McDonald's was a very big mistake. Overall, you would have been better off last year if I had regularly snuck off to the movies during market hours.
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His letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in the 1998 annual report, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., February 1999
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View profile →I have the invisibility of a middle-aged woman. I live in Brighton, and feel for the first time in my life that I belong. My kids are safe, my husband’s in a good place and we have a roof over our head: I can’t imagine needing more than that.
A 12-hour nightshift at a toy factory in Southend.
My older sister, Jeanne. We fought when we were kids, but she is so entirely capable.
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.
Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
A television. I don’t care for things. When I moved, I downsized and threw away most of my possessions.
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