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.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

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.