The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

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.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

People succeed at just about anything they're genuinely enthusiastic about.

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

It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer... The predictability is so high... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?