You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.
Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.
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.
Fake friends are like shadows. They follow you in the sun and leave you in the dark.
Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?
I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.