Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

I don't make music for the critics; I make it for the people who need it.

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.

幸福不是现成的东西，它来自于你自己的行动。

——〈中国问题的真解决〉，与伦敦《滨海杂志》记者谈话，1911年11月

Adaptability is the most important trait for any business in today's fast-changing world.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.

The best way to learn about investing is to read a lot and study the great investors.