“Don’t count on Graham and Dodd to make you a fortune, everybody in the market knows the theory, ever wonder why fund managers can’t beat the S&P 500? ‘Cause they’re sheep and the sheep get slaughtered. I been in the business since ’69. Most of these high paid MBAs from Harvard never make it. You need a system, discipline, good people, no deal junkies, no toreadors, the deal flow burns most people out by 35. Give me PSHs: poor, smart and hungry. And no feelings. You don’t win ‘em all, you don’t love ‘em all, you keep on fighting and if you need a friend, get a dog, it’s trench warfare out there sport… “

– Gordon Gekko

“It is only when we truly know and understand that we don’t know … and had no way of knowing, that we know we have to find out what we don’t know.”

– Marshall J. Jones

“The real source of happiness involves one’s state of mind, outlook, and motivation, and one’s level of warmheartedness towards others.”

– Dalai Lama

” On the abstract level, I have turned the belief in my own fallibility into the cornerstone of an elaborate philosophy. On a personal level, I am a very critical person who looks for defects in myself as well as in others. But, being so critical, I am also quite forgiving. I couldn’t recognize my mistakes if I couldn’t forgive myself. To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride. Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.”

– George Soros

“I will study and prepare myself and someday my chance will come”

– Abraham Lincoln

“In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.”

– William James

“Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become.”

– Dalai Lama

“It’s not how much you make… it’s about how much you don’t lose…”

– Joseph Gibbons

“If life ever ceased to be an educational experience, I probably wouldn’t get out of bed.”

– Paul Tudor Jones