Cost does not equal value. . . and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.
More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively
To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.
Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.
When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in. . . Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?
Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.