Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

Losses loom larger than gains.

It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things.

-- Epictetus

We suffer not from events but from our judgments about them.

-- Epictetus

Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

-- John D. Rockefeller

It's not about being the smartest person in the room. It's about creating the right environment for good decision-making.

-- Guy Spier

Don't lose money. The best way to do that is to have a very good process for making decisions.

-- Stephen A. Schwarzman