I had the drive to pursue speedskating and I found a sport that I was good at. If I'd got into cycling, I would just be another has been.
Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.
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.
It's like with Smallville, I'm sure those creators didn't know I had done a ton of Star Trek work. I was just the right guy for the job. Do I gravitate towards it? You do what you are best suited to do, so in me being a comic book fan and a fan of genre from my father being in Mission: Impossible and the spy genre and all that, when I go to audition, perhaps I have a leg up because I understand the universe better.
We can drink soup with a fork, it will only take long time! As long as we are patient, we can drink it even with a tiny pin!
It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that. . . insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.
I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.