The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view.

The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with.

There are always people who will be better at some thing than you are.

I know just enough about thermodynamics to understand that if it takes too much fossil-fuel energy to create ethanol, that's a very stupid way to solve an energy problem.

The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense.