Curiosity

“Invest in curiosity.” Anonymous

"There are nearly endless opportunities to improve each day and finding them largely boils down to being curious. People who are better in the end are usually curious in the beginning." James Clear

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." Dr Samuel Johnson

“If you asked an oracle the secret to doing great work and the oracle replied with a single word, my bet would be on ‘curiosity.’” Paul Graham

“Intense curiosity keeps you young. When we're green we grow, when we're ripe we rot.” Ray Kroc

“So as for advice, curiosity is huge. I’m also a big believer in the old expression, ‘The harder I work, the luckier I get.’ For me it just emphasizes the notion that this is all a journey and more will be revealed as you go along. I’ve always found approaching anything I do with that mindset helps a lot.” Chuck Akre

“In my career I’ve literally run across thousands of people who were very very bright, but not necessarily good investors. Pure knowledge, in and of itself, is not a ticket to being a good investor. Imagination and curiosity are what’s hugely important. We’ve discovered things over the years purely by being curious and continuing to keep involved in the search process to find these exceptional businesses.” Chuck Akre

“Curiosity builds pattern recognition. The best investors are driven by perpetual curiosity. They are naturally interested in the world at large and enjoy the puzzle of discovering how things work. Over their lifetimes, curious people develop a broad constellation of data points. As a result, cross-discipline intuition is more habitual and pattern recognition surfaces more readily. Consequently, curious folk possess an advanced ability to filter information and tease out core insights. This is a huge advantage in an industry which requires hoovering up voluminous troves of information and connecting the dots.” Jake Rosser

“Be curious. I don't think anyone can be a great manager unless they're curious. I don't think anyone can be a great investor unless you're curious. You have to understand how to connect the dots. It's a very important thing about investing. And this curiosity -- and I'm talking about not how does it deal work. I'm talking about learn history, learn literature, study geography, etc. And you're going to find how important that is and how that comes into play when you're thinking of how do I connect all of the dots?” Henry Kravis