You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.

I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don't focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.

I always believe that prices move first and fundamentals come second

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

And then at the end of the day, the most important thing is how good are you at risk control. Ninety-percent of any great trader is going to be the risk control.

First of all, never play macho man with the market. Second, never overtrade.

I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.

Failure was a key element to my life’s journey.

You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple.

If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds.

Man created God, not God, man

Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable with the unavoidable, learning to face it with courage.

With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.

When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep.

Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.

I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.