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Atwal Gawande: Williams College’s 2012 Commencement
June 3, 2012 We had a patient at my hospital this winter whose story has stuck with me. Mrs. C was eighty-seven years old, a Holocaust survivor from Germany, and she’d come to the emergency room… Read More
Madhav Dhar’s Eulogy to Barton Biggs
September 7, 2012 Barton (1932 – 2012) I walked with him. I talked with him. I golfed with him—played squash, tennis, lifted weights with him—climbed mountains with him. I travelled the world with him—I helped create new investment worlds with… Read More
Greg Kaplan’s Note to Son Zach Upon Starting a Summer Internship
My 19 year old son Zach just finished his first summer internship. Back in May, a few days before he started his internship, I sent him this email…Zach, as you begin your first serious internship, I wanted to share… Read More
President Ronald Reagan’s Address from Normandy on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day
President Ronald Reagan – On the 40th Anniversary of D-Day Pointe du Hoc – Normandy, France 6 June 1984We’re here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to… Read More
Mike Pence’s Address on the Presidency at Hillsdale College
September 20, 2010 President and Mrs. Arnn, Mr. John Cervini, Mr. David Bobb, Elliot Gaiser, College Republicans and each and every one of the faculty and students of Hillsdale College here today…. As I am sure you know, honor… Read More
Admiral William McRaven: The University of Texas’ 2014 Commencement
Admiral William McRaven (USN, Retired) 2014 Commencement Address University of Texas at Austin President Powers, Provost Fenves, Deans, members of the… Read More
Byron Wien: Lessons I Have Learned in My First 80 Years
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… Read More
Charlie Munger: A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business
Charles Munger – USC Business School I’m going to… Read More
Admiral James Stockdale: Courage Under Fire
Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior James Bond StockdaleI 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… Read More
Steve Jobs: Stanford University’s 2005 Commencement
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… Read More
David Foster Wallace: Kenyon College’s 2005 Commencement
Transcription of the 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address – May 21, 2005 Written and Delivered by David Foster Wallace (If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I’d advise you to go… Read More
Lou Gehrig’s Farewell to Baseball Address at Yankee Stadium
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.I have been in ballparks for… Read More
Jocko Willink: Don’t Forget to Smile
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President John F. Kennedy’s Decision to go to the Moon Address
President Pitzer, Mr. Vice President, Governor, Congressman Thomas, Senator Wiley, and Congressman Miller, Mr. Webb, Mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished guests… Read More
President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war… Read More