Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

What I learned on my own I still remember

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.