Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds