Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.

Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent.

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

Let me know what your problem is, and I will try to make it more difficult for you.

Wells Fargo behaves better than the average big bank. But nobody's perfect.

Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.