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.

Invert, always invert.

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

The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know.

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

-- Abraham Maslow

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

-- Daniel Kahneman

In the last analysis, we see only what we are ready to see, what we have been taught to see. We eliminate and ignore everything that is not a part of our prejudices.

-- Jean-Martin Charcot