The best businesses are the ones that are the most paranoid.

Omar Amanat

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A rule of thumb is that the best investors focus on losers, and the winners take care of themselves.

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It doesn't matter whether the market is up or down. All the day traders want is volatility.

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There is a big difference between using V.C. money that you blow and spending your own personal money.

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Nutrition is just as important as working out.

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I had to train myself to eat less.

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It basically was the worst thing to be called as a businessman: to be falsely labelled an impostor.

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I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.

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When I got out of school, I lived the myth of Horatio Alger, and my company was on the cover of 'Fortune' magazine because it processed over ten percent of NASDAQ's daily trading volume. I had achieved what I thought was the pinnacle of success in this proud, techno-capitalist country.

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