5 Rules to Live By from...Warren Buffett

"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. "


"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."


"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."


"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."


"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful."

Daily Thought: The Mind

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

- William James, American psychologist


"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet


"The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust, French novelist

Daily Thought: The Gang

"My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do."

- Jim Rohn, motivational speaker


"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great."

- Mark Twain, American novelist


"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

- Tennessee Williams, American playwright

Daily Thought: The Photographer

"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results."

- Jack Dixon, American author


"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin."

- Robert Collier, American author


"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

- Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist

Home

Friends,

I have returned home from a long and relaxing vacation at the beach.

Regular posting will resume immediately.

N.J.


"There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again."

- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, American poet

Daily Thought from the Beach: The Skimboard

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius, Chinese philosopher


"When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking."

- Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress

Daily Thought from the Beach: The Tide

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist


"Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment."

- H. Ross Perot, American businessman