“You can become to enormous degree the person you wanna be”. You’ll probably not be just like Buffett but you’ll be yourself and a better person. And that is not a small achievement at all.
It’s not easy at all though. How can you do that?
Think about another pearl that I like : “Intensity is the price of excellence”. And I would add is the price of success probably. You can have all the good ideas in the world but if you are not a “doer”….well you’ll never be able to see your good ideas in motion in the real world. They will remain dreams and you will remain a dreamer, like most good brains around us remain.
But Sam Walton was not a “dreamer” or a “talker”. He was a “doer”, and was thinking that what was driving his passion, his soul and mind was doable. And he wanted to do that so much, with so much intensity that he created automatically for himself a routine and a discipline that will make the things come real at the end. Even when debts were growing, problems were growing, and people around him was not going to believe it was possible to expand so much some grocery stores into a chain of super-stores, against competitors so big and well-established like JC Penney and many others. He was thinking it was possible with such an intensity and competence that made him jump out of bed very very early in the morning. Same thing I was doing when I started my own business in 2006 waking up at 4.30 or 5.00 in the morning before even knowing Sam Walton’s story.