Quick Read

My friend Dan pointed me to this a few days back - an interesting read on the art of speculative investing. More interesting were the short snippets Watts filled the last 30 pages with. A few that resonated with me:

If a horse knew his strength, no man could drive him. If man knew his power, the universe could hardly contain him.

Man rules man; ideas rule the world.

The distant is the great, the near the little. But the little-near controls man rather than the distant-great.

To have made one's self ridiculous, and not to mourn over it, is a supreme test of virtue.

Use condition's possessions. You must use your body or lose it; use your mind or lose it; use your soul or lose it.

Teach by indirection rather than by direction; by suggestion, rather than instruction.

If you want to go anywhere, start. If you want to do anything, begin.

The most complete man is he who touches life at the most points.