Warrn Buffet has a nose for money. You can't really compare us to him

As for long term, i agree. But you have to realize, most people are impatient, and check their balance every day (i know i do), and when they see few consecutive days of negative numbers, we start to worry.
Few days of that, and weak hands kick in, and well, you know the rest...
Well, you do not have to be like him, that is not really something anyone can easily do, it is really not that easy at all, however one thing is for sure, if you watch him closely from his start to finish, you will realize that there are few things you can do in your life that mimics his life style and even if you do not make as much money as he did, you would be at least outpacing inflation and that means you would be getting richer.
The whole point of that message was to tell you that warren buffet has investments dating as further as as 1980's and if you are looking at 6 weeks of results or any "weeks" of results even if ts 50 weeks, you are not really doing yourself a justice. Find a 100% trusted investment and just put it in there for 10-20 years and you will realize that it is higher than you could ever imagine.