No matter what your career aspirations are, you should begin by thinking carefully about why you are engaging in any activity and what you can expect to get out of it.

We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year.

Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with $5,000 accounts?

Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.

If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.

I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.

You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

I have met many sacred souls in reading.

Before proving it to someone else, I had to be able to prove it to myself.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

My greatest friend is truth.

If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.

I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.

Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to rafish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers.