The most important thing is being attentive to cycles.

You can't predict. You can prepare.

To achieve superior results, you have to have an edge in either information or analysis. And the former is increasingly hard to get.

Risk means more things can happen than will happen.

Endure and renounce.

-- Epictetus

Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.

-- Seneca

Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.

-- Epicurus

If you carve without ceasing, even metal and stone can be engraved.

-- Xunzi

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

-- Benjamin Franklin