Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.

Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard.

He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met with an animal having habits and structure not at all in agreement.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving funds exceeds that of the market.

Nobody responds to being made to feel judged.

Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.