If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.
Success doesn’t always look like what we think it looks like.
The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach.
Apple made tools that helped people express their creativity and Steve Jobs knew that so he told that story well. But Facebook makes tools that help people connect and Mark Zuckerberg is hardly a story-teller. Nevertheless, he's become a leader because his products do such a good job of solving a problem.
In companies, there are three activities that should be labeled better. First there is the "CORE" which is the thing the company does that its customers pay it to do.
I believe in labeling things.
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended
A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it.
For many years of my life I thought one came down with a mood just as one comes down with a cold. But slowly I learned that moods are a product of purposeful unconsciousness and can be rectified by the very consciousness one worked so hard to evade.