If you're not failing, you're not pushing your limits, and if you're not pushing your limits, you're not maximizing your potential.

Pain plus reflection equals progress.

Radical open-mindedness and radical transparency are invaluable for rapid learning and effective change.

The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Conceive optimistically, plan pessimistically, execute optimistically.

-- Kazuo Inamori

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

-- Ingvar Kamprad

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match.

-- Joel Greenblatt

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

-- Jeremy Grantham

I try to invest in companies where the downside is limited and the upside is significant.

-- Bruce Berkowitz