Buffett Lost BILLIONS On This

What this video covers

Warren Buffett losing billions, due to a poor valuation or investment decision. This suggests the video delves into the financial aspects of investments and how valuation can impact outcomes.

Transcript

What would you consider to be the worst investment you've ever made? The worst investment I ever made? How long do you have? >> [laughter] >> I I I've made some very bad ones, but that doesn't really bother me. You know, it might bother the shareholders, but that's another question. >> [laughter] >> The uh You know, you're going to make You're going to make mistakes in life. I mean, >> [music] >> there's no question about it. You don't want to make them on the big decisions, you know, who you marry and some some things like that. [music] So, there's no way I'm going to make a lot of business and investment decisions without making some mistakes. I may try to minimize them. I I don't I don't dwell on them at all. I don't I don't look back. The biggest mistakes are the ones that actually don't show up. They're the mistakes [music] of omission rather than

commission. We've never lost that much money on any one investment. >> [music] >> But, it's the things that I knew enough to do that I didn't do. We have We have missed [music] profits of as much as, you know, maybe 10 billion dollars in things [music] that I knew enough to do and I didn't do.

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