金融的本质是服务实体经济，脱离了实体经济的金融是无源之水、无本之木。
The essence of finance is to serve the real economy. Finance detached from the real economy is like water without a source or a tree without roots.
In business, as in chemistry, the right combination of elements creates something extraordinary.
I don't want to be better than anyone else, I just want to be better than myself.
At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"
The stream of consciousness is a stream of adaptations.
"The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."