Insightful Quotes - Page 4

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.

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.

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.

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

You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.

You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

That's insightful, but equally insightful is what they say afterwards. The other thing that I always point out is it's one thing to talk to the candidate. It's quite another to talk to the staff, and that's when you find out what's really going on.

Q: Does this train stop at Brighton? A: I hope so or there's going to be a hell of a splash.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.