Be a perpetual learner. "I just want to be right - I don't care if the right answer comes from me."

Embrace reality and deal. "Reality is what it is, and you have to embrace it and deal with it."

Be radically open-minded. "To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble."

Stress-test your opinions. "If you worry, you don't have to worry, and if you don't worry, you have to worry."

Problems are opportunities. "Problems are just potential improvements screaming at you."

Life's struggles bring wisdom. "You can have virtually anything you want, but you can't have everything you want."

Effective ways lead to success. "I believe that the desire to evolve - to get better - is probably humanity's most pervasive driving force."

Learning from mistakes is key. "Mistakes are the path to progress."

Failure teaches valuable lessons. "Failing well means learning from your failures."

Embrace reality for improvement. "Truth - more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality - is the essential foundation for producing good outcomes."

Balance risks for better decisions. "He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass."

Pain plus reflection equals progress. "Pain + Reflection = Progress."

Personal evolution leads to success. "The greatest success you can have as the person in charge is to orchestrate others to do things well without you."

Personal evolution brings fulfillment. "In order to be great, you can't be normal, and normal is setting for something less than great."

Be radically truthful and transparent. "Being radically truthful and radically transparent is the best way to build meaningful work and meaningful relationships."

Seek to understand before concluding. "The two biggest barriers to good decision-making are your ego and your blind spots."

Setbacks are opportunities for growth. "Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life - you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion."

Transparent honesty builds improvement. "I believe that truthfulness leads to improvement and lack of truthfulness leads to deterioration of the self."

Open-mindedness leads to better decisions. "The greatest tragedy of mankind - or one of them - is that people needlessly hold wrong opinions in their minds."

Diverse perspectives enhance decision-making. "If you're not failing, you're not pushing your limits, and if you're not pushing your limits, you're not maximizing your potential."