I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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.
The legend goes that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. I was thinking. . . that must be hard to put all the tiny seatbelts on all the snakes.
Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.
I'm a geek to the bone.
When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.