To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are avidly buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest ultimate rewards.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

I know that I do not know.

-- Plato

I know that I know nothing.

-- Socrates

The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete; it dwells in places others disdain, and so is close to the Tao.

-- Laozi

The trouble with people is that they love playing teacher to others.

-- Mencius

When three walk together, one is surely my teacher. I follow what is good and correct what is not.

-- Confucius

I transmit but do not create; I trust in and love the ancients.

-- Confucius