I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.

The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

Illiteracy is simply the inability to read and write.

Get used to gaps in your comprehension, ” said Sabetha. “The rest of us certainly have.

When we give our heartbreak to God, he fashions it into a softer and even more loving heart."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

The only one you get even with is yourself.

You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.