Luahiwa

“John Henry Newman put it more than 150 years ago, “the general principles of any study you may learn by books at home; but the detail, the color, the tone, the air, the life which makes it live in us, you must catch all these from those in whom it lives already.”
― Mihir Desai, The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

“We should experience as much as possible—just as insurance companies must—in order to make good decisions and understand the world with the right probabilities.”
― Mihir Desai, The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

“Organizations that stigmatize failure actually tend to repeat failures rather than learn from them.”
― Mihir Desai, The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man...”
― Socrates