Success Quote by Warren Buffett

The line lands like a martini-dry drive-by: a supposedly buttoned-up businessman deploying overkill. “Intensified bores” isn’t just an insult; it’s a diagnosis of a culture that industrializes tedium. The phrasing borrows the swagger of travel writing and the cruelty of a roast, then twists the knife with “on the whole earth besides,” a grandiose scope that makes the complaint feel both ludicrous and oddly plausible. Hyperbole is the point: boredom, here, isn’t personal failure but a mass-produced civic product.

The real trick is the mock-serious posture. “I am quite serious” signals the opposite; it invites the reader to hear a wink behind the monocle. Then comes the faux-authoritative claim that you can’t even understand the word “bore” until you’ve visited America, as if the U.S. is a laboratory where mediocrity has been refined to its purest concentration. That’s an old-world rhetorical move: define the New World by its social irritations, not its ideals.

The subtext is less about individuals than about incentives. A country organized around hustle, networking, self-promotion, and constant “interestingness” breeds people who talk like pitch decks and live like conference panels. “Intensified” suggests acceleration: more noise, less texture, higher volume, lower curiosity. Coming from a figure associated with capital and competence, the jab doubles as a warning: prosperity doesn’t automatically produce taste, charm, or inner life. Sometimes it just funds longer monologues.