In this short monologue, the speaker cites Warren Buffett’s principle of avoiding businesses one does not understand, emphasizing the importance of staying within one’s circle of competence. He illustrates the concept with his own lifelong experience running a lawn‑mowing business since the early 1980s, noting that he has continuously refined his service over decades. The core message is that success comes from working in areas you know well and committing to daily, incremental improvements.
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One of the things that Buffett says is he doesn't get into business. He doesn't understand. Now, this is a guy 100 times more brilliant than me, the most amazing investor, but he says, I don't understand a business. I'm not going to get it. You do nothing with technology. Yeah, I think we can learn a lot from that if we stick to what we know. Now, one of the reasons I've been successful is I've done the same thing basically full time since 1982, which is actually, what, 46, 44, 45 years now. And I've done the same thing with, which is the business that I understood, mowing lawns, which I'd already done that previous seven years. Anyway, I mowed lawns for seven years, and I kept on doing it and kept on improving what I do. And I think that's a good lesson to anybody. And I know I'm being biased because you're here now, but the fact of the matter is, if you go into almost anything, anything that's got any reasonable chance of success, and you just say, improve, improve every day, just a little bit idea, how can I improve? It's amazing what you can achieve, but if you work with what you know, what you're good at, you tend to be very success.
