by lIzoiDmul1 | Aug 21, 2017 | Addresses
Admiral William McRaven (USN, Retired) 2014 Commencement Address University of Texas at Austin President Powers, Provost Fenves, Deans, members of the faculty, family and friends and most importantly, the class of 2014. Congratulations on your achievement. It’s...
by lIzoiDmul1 | Aug 21, 2017 | Articles
I was scheduled to speak about the world outlook at an investment conference recently and shortly before my time slot the conference organizer said the audience was more interested in what I had learned over the course of my career than what I had to say about the...
by lIzoiDmul1 | Aug 21, 2017 | Addresses
Charles Munger – USC Business School I’m going to play a minor trick on you today because the subject of my talk is the art of stock picking as a subdivision of the art of worldly wisdom. That enables me to start talking about worldly wisdom—a much broader...
by lIzoiDmul1 | Aug 21, 2017 | Articles
Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human BehaviorJames Bond Stockdale I came to the philosophic life as a thirty-eight-year-old naval pilot in grad school at Stanford University. I had been in the navy for twenty years and scarcely ever out of a...
by lIzoiDmul1 | Aug 21, 2017 | Addresses
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life....
