"For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times."

“When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.”

“You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.”

“The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.”

Source : Guy Spier (2014). “The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment”, p.28, Palgrave Macmillan

“A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.”

Source : Twitter post from May 24, 2014

“Obama's style of argumentation is unlike any president I have ever met, and I've met a lot of them. And the condescension that oozes from him when he's talking about his opponents, it's really striking.”

Source : "Jeb Bush's Iraq Stumble". "Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.wsj.com. May 17, 2015.

“The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.”

“Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.”

“The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.”