Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.
What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.
The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask ‘what is true’ – and then ask yourself ‘what should be done about it.’ I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don’t!
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.
I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature’s laws, and that all societies will succeed or fail in the degrees that they operate consistently with these laws.
To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what’s best.
Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.
It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.
Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don’t know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don’t.
There are two main drivers of asset class returns – inflation and growth.
Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.
If you don’t own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.
An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.
I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to operate in harmony with it to help it evolve.
When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony.
Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.
If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don’t face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.