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

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

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.

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

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

Ask why five times.

-- Sakichi Toyoda

I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

-- J. P. Morgan

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

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

-- Peter Thiel

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

-- Henry Ford

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

-- René Descartes