You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.

I don`t think I own any US stocks, if I do its very few, so few I can`t even remember.

One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do... I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up... I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial "shooting fish in a barrel."

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!