You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared … - Jim Rogers

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It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

Jim Rogers

You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.

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Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Opinion Leaders, People, Support, Turn, Wisdom

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

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If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.

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One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial shooting fish in a barrel.

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Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.

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