Warren Buffett cites hockey legend Wayne Gretzky for an important principal in investing when it comes to looking at formulas, such as P/E ratios.
“It’s the future that counts,” Buffett said at the 1995 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. “It’s like what I wrote there, what Wayne Gretzky says, to go where the puck is going to be, not where it is.”
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