Words of Wisdom

Business brokers are fond of saying that the money is made on the buy.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing. ~ Warren Buffett

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes. ~ Albert Einstein

If I had an hour to solve a problem, I would spend 59 minutes asking the right questions.

Listening is Loving.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Life is like angry birds. There are always several pigs laughing when you lose.

Andrea (Galileo??s student): Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero. Galileo: No, Andrea. Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. ~ Life of Galileo, Bertolt Brecht

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave five minutes longer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

It is an irony of our times that the majority of the world??s poorest people now live in countries with vast international financial reserves. ~ Lawrence Summers, Harvard University

It is an irony of our times that the majority of the world??s poorest people now live in countries with vast international financial reserves.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. ... Let me not look for allies in life??s battlefield but to my own strength. ~ Fruit-Gathering, Rabindranath Tagore

if you??ve got a squirt-gun in your pocket you may have to take it out. If you??ve got a bazooka, and people know you??ve got it, you may not have to take it out. . . . By increasing confi-dence, it will greatly reduce the likelihood it will ever be used. ~ Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson

Pain without words is a kind of wisdom, smiling without a word is a kind of open-minded.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. ~ Nelson Mandela

Coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. Even a shattered dream can do that for you. ~ Lisa Bu

The symphony of Earth is playing right now, it??s just that we aren??t listening carefully. ~ Du-Chih Tu

In the Country of the Blind, the one-eyed Man is King. ~ The Country of the Blind, H. G. Wells

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn??t. ~ Pudd??nhead Wilson??s New Calendar, Mark Twain

What we have been told since the time of the Greeks is that every leader must try to control his own passions before he can hope to command the passions of others. ~ David Gergen