The Snowball

“Charlie was despairing over whether he would ever meet anyone else. ‘How can I find somebody? Out of twenty million people in California, half are women. Of these ten million, only two million are of an appropriate age. From that group, a million and a half would be married, leaving five hundred thousand. Three hundred thousand of them are too dum

“You should never, when facing some unbelievable tragedy, let one tragedy increase into two or three through your failure of will,” he would later say.14

If you go on in business, be content with moderate gains. Don’t be too hasty to get too rich.… I want you to live so as to be fit to live and fit to die.”5

wealth is hard to accumulate and easy to lose.

The first rule is that nobody goes home after the first race, and the second rule is that you don’t have to make it back the way you lost it. That is so fundamental, you know.”