If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history and background of the market and all the principal companies whose stocks are on the board as carefully as a medical student studies anatomy—if you can do all that and in addition you have the cool nerves of a gambler, the sixth sense of a clairvoyant and the courage of a lion, you have a ghost of a chance.

Are you willing to push the right buttons even if it means being perceived as the villain? … I’d rather be perceived as a winner than a good teammate. I wish they both went hand in hand all the time but that’s just not reality. … I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

The first sentence of the novel is the most important, but the last sentence is the one that stays with you.

辅时：适应时势行事。违时：违背时势行事。当时：适时。圣人行事能够适应时势，不能违背时势。聪明人善于谋划，不如利用合适的时机。

The beauty of mathematics lies in its ability to describe the universe in a language that transcends cultural and linguistic barriers.

名声不是凭空产生的，赞誉也不会自己增长，只有成就了功业，名声才会到来。

我们都是自己思想的囚徒。

The challenge of filmmaking is to find the universal in the specific.

世界是一个舞台，但演员选得很糟糕。