“Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.”

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.

When growth is slower than expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher than expected, bonds go down. When inflation’s lower than expected, bonds go up.

You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don’t know what the future is going to hold.

Like the saying goes, don’t believe everything you read.

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you’ve made a mistake or don’t know something.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Living in the past stops you from moving forward, and living in the future stops you from living in the moment.

We all have pain in life but we learn to live with it. When our pain leaves us and goes away, we feel empty. Pain is a pleasure.

If you break the shell of your personality, you will simply be present – as life is, as the Divine is, just a Presence.

If You’re Intense & Relaxed At the Same Moment, You Are a Full-fledged Life.

Human Beings Are Not Suffering Life, They’re Suffering Memory & Imagination.

The sole carrier in this pandemic is the human being. If we as human beings become conscious and bring Yoga into everyone’s life, stopping the pandemic in its tracks is very much in our hands.