The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

聪明的投资者是现实主义者，他们向乐观主义者出售，从悲观主义者那里购买。

Listen to everyone in your company and figure out ways to get them talking. The folks on the front lines—the ones who actually talk to the customer—are the only ones who really know what's going on out there. You'd better find out what they know.

孤独是人类的常态。培养它。它在你内心开辟的隧道让你的灵魂有成长的空间。

银行的存在是因为它们有助于缓解信息不对称造成的问题。

世界上主要有两类人。第一类人有所成就，第二类人号称自己有所成就。第一类人不如第二类人那么多。

你不能害怕失败，这是成功的唯一途径。

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, anguished or mocking smokescreen which keeps the other in its place.