Buffett: 'I look at Berkshire as a painting' · Transcript · BuffettMungerGPT

WarrenIn a crazy way, I look at Berkshire as a painting, you know, and it's unlimited in size. It's got an ever-expanding canvas, and I get to paint what I want. And if somebody wants to paint something else, then I'll go someplace, and I'll get a smaller little thing, and I'll paint away. And, you know, I actually, you know, I'm no good. I don't know anything about pains. Take me into an art museum and, you know, all I really want to know is where the men's room is, but, but it is, you know, I'm just not interested. And other people look at pains and they see something, and then they see something additionally later on, and I mean, they really have a different sort of perception ability in relation to that. And to me, birkshire is a painting, and I get a paint. And, you know, the object, obviously, I want my partners to come out well in it. But the real thing I like is the painting. And as long as, you know, it's in my head, and I see different things in as I go along. And, you know, it's, you know, it's the closest thing I can come to enjoying myself every minute of the day. And it's not, I don't prescribe it for other people. And occasionally, I'm not so occasionally, but I see things in the painting, you know, I think, well, I should have done that differently. and I go back and paint it over and it's satisfying and who knows why human beings react in that manner, but I do know what makes me happy and what doesn't make me happy. And I found what makes me happy, so why in the world would I change it?