Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.