Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.
Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself. . . The more you learn, the more you'll earn.
Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference.
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.
We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.
I believe in style, not fashion.
The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.
When I first started, I wasn't really into movies that much unless it was an action-packed gunslinger with naked women here and there.