Most people are too fretful, they worry too much.Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it's time.
Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets and can be lost in a heartbeat.
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments.Especially when they challenge your best-loved ideas.
The highest form that civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust-not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another...
There's a tendency to think that our present politicians are much worse than we had in the past.But we tend to forget how awful our politicians were in the past.
One solution fits all is not the way to go.All these cultures are different.The right culture for the Mayo Clinic is different from the right culture at a Hollywood movie studio.You can't run all these places with a cookie-cutter solution.
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.Discharge your duties faithfully and well.Systematically you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts...At the end of the day if you live long enough most people get what they deserve.
Some people are extraordinarily good at knowing the limits of their knowledge because they have to be.
Wisdom acquisition is a moral duty.It's not something you do just to advance in life...You are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know.You're going to advance in life by what you learn after you leave here.
Confucious said that real knowledge is knowing the extent of one's ignorance.Aristotle and Socrates said the same thing.Is it a skill that can be taught or learned? It probably can, if you have enough of a stake riding on the outcome...
Another thing, of course, is that life will have terrible blows in it, horrible blows, unfair blows.It doesn't matter.And some people recover and others don't…
The iron rule of nature is: You get what you reward for.If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Is there such a thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.
I would argue that passion is more important than brainpower.
Just because you like it does not mean that the world will necessarily give it to you.
Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it.If the answer is yes, you've won.
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading.cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
In my whole life, I have known no wise people...who didn't read all the time --none, zero.You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads --at how much I read...They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.
Part of what you must learn is how to handle mistakes and new facts that change the odds.Life, in part, is like a poker game wherein you have to learn to quit sometimes when holding a much-loved hand.
Everywhere there is a large commission, there is a high probability of a rip-off.