Occupation: Businessman Birth: 1949
I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it..
If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions..
I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense..
There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money a….
Never say anything about a person you wouldn't say to them directly, and don't try people without accusing them to their face. Badmouthing people beh….
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow..
Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in….
The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was a go….
Sometimes we forge our own principles and sometimes we accept others' principles, or holistic packages of principles, such as religion and legal syst….
I notice a difference from the moment I meditate..
To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble..
When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very….
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass..
Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray..
One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads - often theories that are cri….
Forget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it..
I have a bad rote memory, but I tend to learn through my experiences. And then when I went into the markets, and then starting my business as an entr….
Over time, it also became important for me to share my management principles with the people I worked with because we had to agree on how we should b….
The expression I use: Pain + Reality = Progress. Whenever I would have a painful mistake, I started to view that as puzzles that would give me gems i….
Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I've had..
Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to see things in a static way, an….