I’ve got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.

I haven't met a rich technician

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.

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.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.