This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.

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

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

Invert, always invert.

Expect hogs to eat a lot more in the presence of a lot of hog wash.

In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco.