위대한 기업에 투자하라 (Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits), 켄 피셔의 머리말 중에서
Scuttlebutt itself can be a sort of art form that identifies characterizations of the fifteen points. It's the difference between learning to play the piano (craft) and then composing (art). Art takes time to learn. You probably won't compose until you're pretty competent at playing. In almost any field, you can learn craft by repetition, but not otherwise. You may appreciate the art without any ability to create it yourself. Or, after mastering craft, you may turn yourself into an artist. But this book allows you to sense the art, and fortunately it doesn't take that long to learn because a lot of it is common sense. The problem for most folks is that they don't know that this common sense can be applied, and hence they don't try. But Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits shows you how.
사실 수집 그 자체는 15가지 포인트가 어떤 것인지를 보여주는 일종의 예술과도 같은 것이라고 할 수 있다.
피아노를 연주하는 것(기술)과 작곡하는 것(예술), 이 두 가지에는 차이가 있다.
이 책에서는 예술을 느낄 수 있도록 해준다. 더구나 그것을 배우는 데는 오랜 시간이 걸리지도 않는다.
Over the years, I applied this process to lots of ...
