My dad was a dentist but I wasn't a hygienist. I assisted my dad.
The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome
Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.
Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.
Move only when you have an advantage. It's very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.
'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.
We need a common enemy to unite us.
I look real good and feel even better, I make a burlap sack look like a cashmere sweater.
Some things were better lost than found.
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.