#economic-moat

#economic-moat

Some financial experts recommend enjoying a portion of the windfall while allocating the rest towards savings or investments to ensure long-term benefits.

Occidental's operational story is strong, with Q4 2025 production hitting 1,481 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day, exceeding guidance, and the Permian Basin setting a record at 800 Mboed in Q3 2025.

"Instead of starting with a product that we didn't feel like existed in the marketplace, we started with a mission that we felt like didn't exist, particularly in the beauty space," Cohen said. "We love that young people are turning to brands for not just products, but for the issues that they care about-and also that's what holds us accountable."

If we went into some very major war, the value of money would go down... The last thing you'd want to do is hold money during a war... You're going to be a lot better off owning productive assets... than pieces of paper.

At first, I thought this was insane. Why would you say no to good opportunities? But then I remembered something Buffett once said: "The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything." That quote hit different after my second startup crashed and burned. We tried to do everything. We said yes to every feature request, every partnership opportunity, every speaking gig.

Without a doubt, picking Buffett-approved stocks would involve researching companies' valuation metrics, such as the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio and price-to-sales (P/S) ratio. Yet, it's also important to make sure that each business's financials are in good shape. Additionally, it's a nice bonus when a business has a competitive advantage or "moat," or at least is highly competitive within its industry. With all of that in mind, we can now select three Buffett-style stocks with growth potential for your golden years.

Sam Bankman-Fried appeared on a Fortune cover in 2022 asking 'The Next Warren Buffett?' He's now serving a prison sentence for fraud. Eddie Lampert was Businessweek's 'Next Buffett' in 2004 before his Sears empire filed for bankruptcy in 2018.

The mistake originates in logic. Logic reduces life to statistics. And statistics convert real-world business into spreadsheets of digits: total income, net profit, employee productivity. . . Those mathematical values are then scoured by logic for patterns and trends. Which is to say: The spreadsheets are fed into AI machine learning systems or analyzed by traders who (by engaging Daniel Kahneman's system 2) have rigorously purged their minds of bias.

Sometimes Warren Buffett says something so simple, so obvious, that you almost want to roll your eyes. At 95 years young, he has offered plainspoken advice that has shaped one of the most successful careers in history. But when you hear it, you know it's truth and part of you wonders: Why haven't I applied this yet? When we slow down long enough to sit with some of his wisdom-really let it sink in, not just skim it on our phones-