You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you
I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.
Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.
Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.
If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.
One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial shooting fish in a barrel.
Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
Homosexuality is the handiwork of Satan.
Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.
I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.