Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.
I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it.
Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.
The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.
The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.
Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.
There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions. You can’t be a good value investor without being an independent thinker – you’re seeing valuations that the market is not appreciating. But it’s critical that you understand why the market isn’t seeing the value you do. The back and forth that goes on in the investment process helps you get at that.
When we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.
War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.
The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.
When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.