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You can't ever forget how precarious and humbling running money really is.

— Andy Kessler Running Money (2004)

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"The stock of the greatest company in the world is crap if every investor already thinks it is the greatest company in the world."

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Wealth really is a never-ending process. So is running money. You can't just walk away and ask about the meaning of life.

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"I've been doing this for years. Never invest in a company with the target price for the stock in the name of the company."

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Cheap power helped create a new market that didn't exist previously.

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In fact, maybe Metcalfe's Law is the formula for Doug Engelbart's scaling of human knowledge, just as Watt's steam engine scaled human power.

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