Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

How you behave in one place, will help in surprising ways later.

If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go.

Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle.

Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.

I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.