“Look for people who have lots of great questions. Smart people are the ones who ask the most thoughtful questions, as opposed to thinking they have all the answers. Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“In a sense, this book is not an autobiography but a biography, because I am writing about someone I used to know. Yes, these events are true, yet sometimes they seemed to have happened to someone else, and I often felt like a curious onlooker or someone trying to remember a dream. I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.”
― Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
― Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
“Because our educational system is hung up on precision, the art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued. This impedes conceptual thinking.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
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