Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.

The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as possible for a better solution.

-- René Descartes

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

-- Henry Ford

Solving big problems is easier than solving small ones.

-- Sergey Brin

Ask why five times.

-- Sakichi Toyoda

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

-- Peter Thiel

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

-- J. P. Morgan