Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.

The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

The key to success is emotional stability.