Know thyself.

One swallow doesn’t make a summer.

It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no more simple.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Create more than you consume.

Figure out what works and do it.

In all cities and all peoples there still exist, and always have existed, the same desires and passions.

Work hard in silence, let success make the noise.

True greatness is undeniable. Be so great they can’t ignore you.

There is always some madness in love. But there is always also some reason in madness.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man.

It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

Make a friend of time.

The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.

Consider the consequences of the consequences.

Time and tide wait for no man.

You must not fool yourself, and you’re the easiest person to fool.

Given time, the probabilities will play out.

Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Time is the friend of the wonderful business and the enemy of the mediocre.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it.

Investing is more art than science.

桃李不言，下自成蹊 / Peaches and plums are silent, yet the world finds a path to them.

广积粮，高筑墙，缓称王 / Secure your food supplies; build your fortress. Do not rush to be king.

守正用奇 / Rule with principle, win with ingenuity.

弱水三千，但取一瓢 / From a flowing stream, I quench my thirst with a single ladle.