A creative man is motivated by his desire to achieve not by the desire to beat others – Ayn Rand

Great Investing requires a lot of delayed gratification – Charlie Munger

A good decision is (more) based on knowledge not on (just) numbers – Plato

Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process – Benjamin Graham

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance – Confucius

An investment narrative has to have the legitimacy of the downturn – Hugh Hendry

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in the corrections themselves – Peter Lynch

He that can have patience can have what he will – Benjamin Franklin

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre – Warren Buffet

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic – Edward de Bono

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is imitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest – Confucius

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside – George Soros

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people – Daniel Kahneman