Last year, most of us felt the bear market blues. That's as the difficult economy and rising inflation weighed on companies -- and their share prices.

This year, the economic situation remains complicated, but investors are more hopeful about the future -- and that's showing in the stock market. All three major indexes have climbed since the start of 2023, and many stocks that spent last year in the doldrums are soaring today. This is especially true of growth stocks. They're the ones that suffered a great deal last year.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has a pretty interesting comment about what it's like to be a publicly traded company -- and chief Elon Musk agrees. Let's take a look at Buffett's analogy and what it means for investing today and into the future.

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