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comatose_kid on Oct 2, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Warren Buffett explains the credit crisis to Charl...

"And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three I’s: the innovators, the imitators, and the idiots."

13ren on Oct 2, 2008 [–]

Everybody just kind of goes along. And you look kind of silly if you disagree.

It definitely is not easy to resist conformity, Buffett claims that his ability to do this is one of the main reasons for success (he's a contrarian)

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