The challenge of growing up and claiming your rightful place in the world is a classic Hero's Journey motif that naturally struck something deep in many people.

The challenge is not so much learning to accept the terrible things that have happened but learning how to gain mastery over one’s internal sensations and emotions.

Blitzscaling is like the afterburners on a fighter jet that allow you to fly at double or triple normal speed but consume fuel at a shockingly high rate.

Diversify your portfolio, do not put all your eggs in one basket, to minimize risk and also to capture other opportunists.

Bubbles do their damage when long-term investors playing one game start taking their cues from those short-term traders playing another.

At the end of the day, you have to save yourself – over and over again, no matter what. You and your story are needed. You are worthy. You are strong. You are extraordinary.

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don’t work out.

It’s not what you used to do, it’s not what you think, it’s what you do every day.

Without an Organization Chart, everything hinges on luck and good feelings... the recipe for chaos and disaster.

What superficiality—and what stupidity—there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty.