I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively
To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.
Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.
It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality or it would not be reasonable.
I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.