Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

You can hire your advisor and then just apply a windage factor, like I used to do when I was a rifle shooter. I'd just adjust for so many miles an hour wind. Or you can learn the basic elements of your advisor's trade. You don't have to learn very much, by the way, because if you learn just a little then you can make him explain why he's right.

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights And you're probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It's just that simple.

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