This one mindset Warren Buffett warns against destroys small businesses

12 Feb 2026 · 1 min
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Brian Kaskavalciyan warns that small-business owners who make decisions only to solve immediate problems—cutting prices for a sale, hiring fast to ease workload, borrowing against future revenue—gradually poison their business. Warren Buffett has long cautioned against this short-term mindset. Most small businesses fail to think longer-term and get trapped in cycles of quick fixes.

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