Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
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.
The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.
I hate any kind of owing of anything.
Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.
Great businesses turne on a little pinne.