Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
It has always seemed strange to me... 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. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
It is now clear that the hybrids form seeds which have the one or the other of the two differentiating characters.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.