对于购并所需资金，波克夏随时作好万全准备，巴菲特说
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly; but I don’t see any chance of it just at present.
Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.
夜晚觉察到早晨的错误，今日悔恨昨日的过失。