Sometimes, success in life is knowing one's limitations.
Interpretation
Acknowledging one's limitations can lead to greater success in life.
This quote emphasizes that true success is not just about achievements and milestones, but also about self-awareness and understanding one's own limitations. By recognizing where our capacities lie, we can make more informed decisions, set realistic goals, and ultimately find paths that lead to fulfillment and achievement.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments.
Ironically, when a bunch of very smart people are sitting around a table for hours trying to figure out whether they should do something, that tends to not necessarily lead to the best results.
I don't feel like a wealthy person. Other people think of me as a wealthy person, but I don't. I feel the same as when I was a fifth-year associate trying to make partner at Lehman Brothers. I haven't changed.
The biggest mistake I've seen people make with their careers is, when they're good, after two or three years - and they happen to be smart - they announce that they're going out to start their own firm.
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.
I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
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