Chapter 11. Sharpen Your Concentration

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

James Allen

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Corita Kent

WARREN BUFFETT ACCEPTED AN INVITATION from his good friend Katharine Graham of the Washington Post to spend a weekend with some of her friends at a remote vacation home. Several successful people from the Seattle area, such as Bill Gates's parents, were to be there, as was Bill Gates himself. Both Gates and Buffet had reputations for being impatient with idle talk, and they hit it off with each other, spending several hours in conversation. At dinner Bill Gates Sr. posed a question to the table: What factor ...

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