I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.
If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.
In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.
Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.
I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no!
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.
Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.
Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.
I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative.
The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.
Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.
In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.
A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.
He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.
