
My wife ran away with my best friend and I still miss him a lot: Buffett uses this country song as a metaphor to explain how investment in a bad business like Hoschild-Kohn retail which he eventually dumped without making any money felt like. In this metaphor “best friend” is money while “wife” is the business you buy (marry) and eventually sell (divorce).
I’ve never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I’ve sure woke up with a few: Buffett uses this country song metaphor to describe what too often happens with acquisitions. He says in 2007 letter to shareholders: To date, Dexter (a shoe company) is the worst deal that I’ve made. But I’ll make more mistakes in the future – you can bet on that. This line from Bobby Bare’s country song explains what too often happens with acquisitions.
In the short-run, the market is a voting-machine, in the long run the market is a weighing machine: Buffett likes this metaphor originally from his guru Ben Graham. It says that in the short term market fluctuations are governed by votes which depend upon fear, euphoria and greed. However, in the long run it reflects the intrinsic value of the economy.
In business, quality of boat matters a lot more than effectiveness of rowing: Buffet

Note: Source for these Buffettism is either his biography Snowball or his Letters to shareholders.
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