Insight Quotes - Page 5

You know I, I just think, that ah, things have a way of working themselves out.

Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.

Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments and that you wanted to be in good investments, and therefore, you'd just find a few of them that you knew a lot about and concentrate on those seemed to me such an obviously good idea. And indeed, it's proven to be an obviously good idea. Yet 98% of the investing world doesn't follow it. That's been good for us.

Interestingly, we have beaten the market quite handsomely over this time frame, although beating the market has never been our objective. Rather, we have consistently tried not to lose money and, in doing so, have not only protected on the downside but also outperformed on the upside.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

Goals determine what you are going to be

I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.

All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.