We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell.

There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.

An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.