“People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.”

Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior to intellectualized learning.

Forget about what the technology is. Just understand the motivation behind it.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be.

I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.

Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.

What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.

Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them – i.e., reflecting – if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That’s a beautiful deleveraging.

I’ve learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.

People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony.

Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.

Almost everything is like a machine.

Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I’ve had.

When you think that it’s too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful.

If you don’t own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody’s throat. For those who don’t want it, I have nothing to defend.

He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

Your mind can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it’s your choice to make.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui is the best actor because his choice of roles are so diametrically opposite from each other, and he pulls it off almost every time so convincingly.

There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own