I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo.
You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.
There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.
We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.
Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay. ' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.
Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.
There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.