Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.

Trying to prioritize among things we're unlikely to do is pretty fruitless.

Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.

I see almost no change in the price of the composite product that flows through Costco I don't feel sorry for the people who pay $27 million for an 8,000-square-foot condo in Manhattan. So inflation comes in places.

For years I have read the morning paper and harrumphed. There's a lot to harrumph about now.

I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.