{"id":73560,"date":"2026-05-16T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/73560\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:11:09","slug":"warren-buffets-one-line-reply-to-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-question-on-why-people-dont-like-copy-his-investment-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/73560\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffet’s one-line reply to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos\u2019 question on why people don’t like copy his investment strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Warren It is regarded as one of the most successful investing strategies in human history, yet almost no one copies it. Amazon<\/a> founder Jeff Bezos<\/a> once asked Warren Buffett<\/a> why more people do not copy his investing strategy. The legendary American investor\u2019s one-line reply was classic, witty and entirely brutally honest: his approach is a \u201cget-rich-slowly scheme,\u201d and most people do not like those. Bezos recalled a conversation he had with Buffett during a fireside chat at the America Business Forum in 2025 (videos of which is now being reshared on social media). \u201cI once asked Warren Buffett, \u2018Why don’t more people copy your investment strategy? It’s not that difficult to understand in principle\u2019, and he said, \u2018Jeff, that’s easy. My approach is a get rich, slowly scheme. Yeah, people don’t like those but there’s a lot of Truth in that for everything\u2019,\u201d Bezos said.The Amazon founder agreed to the strategy, further explaining that long term will give people a head start against all competitors.\u201cIf you can think in terms of seven years instead of three years, right\u2026 And you can defer gratification and think long term that will give you a head start against all of your competitors. So, most people can’t do that,\u201d Bezos noted.<\/p>\n

Warren Buffet\u2019s 10-minute rule<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a new advice from Buffet as he has been talking about importance of patience for his entire career. In his famous 1996 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter, he laid out a strict rule for anyone looking to enter the stock market:\u201cIf you aren’t willing to own a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.\u201dUltimately, the takeaway from the conversation between two of the world’s richest men isn’t that everyone needs to buy the exact same stocks as Berkshire Hathaway. The real lesson is that patience and consistency are the competitive advantages because they are the rarest, and probably the most important traits in modern business.Warren retired as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of 2025, handing over leadership to Greg Abel on January 1, 2026. Warren remains chairman, focusing on investments, at the Omaha headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is regarded as one of the most successful investing strategies in human history, yet almost no one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[205,1144,42096,3343,734,13347,669],"class_list":{"0":"post-73560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jeff-bezos","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-berkshire-hathaway","10":"tag-get-rich-slowly-scheme","11":"tag-investment-strategy","12":"tag-jeff-bezos","13":"tag-long-term-investing","14":"tag-warren-buffett"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116583720269089985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}