Friends congratulate me after a quarterly-earnings announcement and say, 'Good job, great quarter '... And I'll say, 'Thank you, but that quarter was baked three years ago. I'm working on a quarter that'll happen in 2021 right now.'

The farther backward you can look the farther forward you are likely to see.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.