Investors would be far better off buying and holding an index fund than attempting to buy and sell individual securities or actively managed mutual funds.

Treat disturbances in life as 'empty boats.

The process of assessing how you feel about the things you own, identifying those that have fulfilled their purpose, expressing your gratitude, and bidding them farewell, is really about examining your inner self, a rite of passage to a new life.

Marriage starts as a joy and ends up an education. It starts as a joy because at first you get to spend every day with the person you care about most in the world, the one who makes you happiest just to be around. But then it turns into something else.

We shall practice joy and gratitude

Successful networking is based on generosity and loyalty.

How we enter our conversations is how we emerge from them. Holding back, not paying attention, disengaged, half-asleep. Or available, present, engaged, awake.

We have been slaves where we ought to have been kings. We have found our reigning to be 'much less' rather than 'much more.

A very special thank you goes to my dad for instilling in me a sense of curiosity, a need for excellence, and an inability to take sh*t from people who don’t think I can do something.

If you ignore the perceptions and experience of the professionals working on your systems entirely, you lose an important view into your systems.