Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.
Money equals freedom.
I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.
Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.
Don't cry about money, it never cries for you.
So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
If you put Canada into $1. 5 trillion in debt and interest rates go up just 200 basis points, you cannot provide the services to 36 million people that were guaranteed to them in the social contract they have with Canada. That's a very, very scary prospect. You can't burden this economy with that much debt. The risk you take on is insurmountable. You have to assume for the next 50 years that rates don't go up? That's insane. That's irresponsible. That's stupid.
You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing - memory is not intelligence. But the whole of humanity has been deceived for centuries and told indirectly that the memory is intelligence. Your schools, your colleges, your universities are not trying to find your intelligence; they are trying to find out who is capable of memorizing more. And now we know perfectly well that memory is a mechanical thing. A computer can have memory, but a computer cannot have intelligence.
I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.