The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.

There is no point in being confident and having a small position.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

Men were not supposed to be mushy, but one thing his mother taught him was that it was better to understand your feelings than hide from them

I can't make you love me if you don't, You can't make your heart feel something it won't.

New York has the best tap water.

Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer.

We need to use antitrust laws. You know, we need to create real media again.

If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

you are the leader you've been looking for

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.