learning Quotes

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.