The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane. The legislators who leave that policy in place are derelict in their duties to be rational and fair. There are plenty of them in both political parties. It's totally outrageous.

The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

there are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that's still going to be lousy. The money still won't come to you. All of the advantages from great improvements are going to flow through to the customers.

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.