"Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into your life and said, 'I'm here for you,' and proved it."
The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn?
弟子不必不如师,师不必贤于弟子。弟子超过老师,是很正常的事情,这也是正是老师所希望的。
The best way to achieve superior investment results is to invest in a diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.