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You don't need to be brilliant. You just need to stop doing dumb things. That is not a Buffett quote but it may as well have been. In 2012 and 2013, as markets regained their swagger post-2008, Buffett went back to the basics. His letters shared plain old-school wisdom that most investors ignore because it doesn't sound clever enough.
This article was originally published on April 28, 2025.