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A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.
Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.
Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.
Investment in infrastructure is a long term requirement for growth and a long term factor that will make growth sustainable.
I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.
Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.
I'm not sure whether Jeff Bezos is the greatest thing in the world coming along or if he may be the emperor with no clothes.
It is not my belief that we need greater government regulation of hedge funds with respect to the systemic risk they create.
We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.
Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.
Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.
Blockchain's a very interesting technology that will have some very profound applications for society over the years to come.
Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.
I think you have a duty and a responsibility to entertain. We have to always remember that there's a public to be entertained.
The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.
We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
Typically, when you ask a financial adviser sitting with a couple: Do you treat the man and woman differently? They say, "No!"
When I feel risk-averse, I am much more likely to surround myself with middle-aged, professional, southern females; I just am.
The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.
Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.
I learnt to always keep my mind open to new ideas and looked at each new assignment as an opportunity to learn and prove myself.
Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.
When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required.
Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.
Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.
To reap this demographic dividend, we need to enable the youth to acquire skills required to get the job or become self-employed.
Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.
If you are looking for a hedge for potential inflation for the future and have a longer term view, then gold is still a good bet.
Hedge funds are other hedge funds' toughest competition. And there are just more of them, and it's tougher and tougher all along.
What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.
If you're in the middle of a field, surrounded by armies, left right and centre, you can't just say: 'I've had enough now, sorry.'
I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.
We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.
We have to understand that India is a complex country. Everything takes time for the real impact to get translated to the economy.
We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution.
Go make your mistakes in the first team. You'll learn more in a month in the first team than you will in two years in the reserves.
I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.
From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.
I think competition is good. It finally delivers the best value to the customer, and I think it keeps all the players on their toes.
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.
The only way to consistently stay ahead of the game is to adopt a long-term view and, if appropriate, with a strong contrarian spin.
We're improving and taking our levels of customer satisfaction higher and higher....Our customers are happier than they were before.
There's nothing I hate more than someone who speaks in the draft room with absolute conviction, but they have nothing to back it up.