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A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.
In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.
A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.
An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.
I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.
It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.
You choose the #life you live. If you don't like it, it's on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.
It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!
Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.
Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is.
More important than the HOW we achieve financial freedom, is the WHY. Find YOUR reasons why you want to be free and wealthy.
At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.
If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business
I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.
Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.
The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.
We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.
It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.
If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.
Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.
I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.
Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But, they might succeed more than they ever dreamed, too.
Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.
By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.
We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private.
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.
First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.
A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.
There isn't a bank in the world that could withstand a run. They all borrow short and lend long, regardless of what they say.
The only thing... in-store retailing has that online doesn't have is it has the ability to touch, smell, feel, and experience.
In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible.
There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.