“When you build a house, every brick counts. When you build a character, every thought counts. You are what you think.”

– bkwsu.org

“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.”

– Bill Meyer

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”

– Socrates

“Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people’s approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.”

– Lao Tzu

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”

– George Bernard Shaw

“You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.”

– Robert Anthony

“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

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”

– John Maynard Keynes