Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!
Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.
For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.
Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked