Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Satya Nadella: Equal work
“We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.” —Satya Nadella.
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Denise Richards: Negative consequences of institutionalization
“Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.” —Denise Richards.
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Jessica Simpson: Every tear should live its purpose
“Every tear should live its purpose. Don’t ever wipe the reason away.” —Jessica Simpson.
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Kiernan Shipka: Ghee is underrated
“Honestly, I think that ghee is underrated. I love using clarified butter. I think it makes vegetables taste so good, especially when you’re just cooking at home.” —Kiernan Shipka.
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Mick Jagger: Obsession
“People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.” —Mick Jagger.
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Stephen A Smith: Standards
“You don’t have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.” —Stephen A. Smith.
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Warren Buffett: Agony
“We like buying businesses where we feel that there’s some untapped pricing power…. One of the questions we asked ourselves [when we bought See’s], and we thought the answer was obvious, was: if we raised the price 10 cents a pound, would sales fall off a cliff? And of course, the answer, in our view…
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Charlie Munger: Higher commodity prices
“It’s hard to know just which companies can pass through the increases in costs that come from higher commodity prices. And it’s also important to know.” —Charlie Munger.
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Seneca: Fortune
“No man has ever been so far advanced by Fortune that she did not threaten him as greatly as she had previously indulged him.” —Seneca.
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John C Maxwell: Concerned
“Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you.” – John C. Maxwell.
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Simon Sinek: Say it out loud
“Your vision is only actionable if you say it out loud. If you keep it to yourself, it will remain a figment of your imagination.” —Simon Sinek.
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Verna Myers: Diversity and inclusion
“Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.”-Verna Myers, author and speaker.
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Warren Buffett: ‘Swing, you bum’
“The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything–you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you are a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, ‘Swing, you bum!’” —Warren Buffett.
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Jeff Bezos: Flexibility and stubbornness
“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” —Jeff Bezos.
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Bill Shorten: Better outcomes
“Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.” —Bill Shorten.
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Julian Assange: Start with the truth
“You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can’t lead to a good conclusion.” —Julian Assange.
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Gordon Ramsay: Looking for the next cow
“I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.” —Gordon Ramsay.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Extremists
“So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary’s hill three men were crucified. We must…
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Colin Powell: Pissing people off
“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” —Colin Powell.
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John C Maxwell: Life
“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – John C. Maxwell.
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Melinda Varian: Best programs
“The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else.” – Melinda Varian.
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Simon Sinek: Curiosity
“Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there’s room for improvement.” —Simon Sinek.
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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Those who desire to rise in the world
“There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.” —Lady Marguerite Blessington, writer (4 Apr 1789-1849).
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Warren Buffett: Absent leverage
“Really, the only way a smart person that’s reasonably disciplined in how they look at investments can get in trouble is through leverage. I mean, if somebody else can pull the plug on you during the worst moment of some kind of general financial disaster, you go broke…. But absent leverage, and absent just kind…
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Robert Downey Jr: Be confident
“I’ve always felt that if you’re not on your side, why should anyone else be. So I always encourage people to be confident, and sometime even a little falsely so, just so you can give yourself an opportunity.” – Robert Downey Jr.
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Lori Loughlin: Little black mark
“When you don’t work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.” —Lori Loughlin.
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G K Chesterton: Problem and solution
“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.” —G K Chesterton.
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Bishop Joseph Butler: Probability
“But to us, probability is the very guide to life.” — Bishop Joseph Butler (1756).
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Dan Rockwell: Blind eye
“Never turn a blind eye to bad attitudes, strained relationships, and recurring dips in performance.” —Dan Rockwell.
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John C Maxwell: Right place for others
“A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.” ― John C. Maxwell.
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Craig T Nelson: What I do, not who I am
“Sometimes you’re encouraged, and other times disappointed. Its a matter of going in and precluding all that with, This is what I do, not who I am. I need to be who I am in the process of doing what I do. I need to stay true to what it is I’m really here for.…
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William the Silent: One need not hope
“One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere.”—William the Silent,Dutch revolutionary.
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John C Maxwell: Compliments and praise
“People must have affirmation and praise in order to maintain a high level of performance. Withholding negative or critical comments is not nearly as important as giving positive input through compliments and praise.” ― John C. Maxwell.
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Simon Sinek: Empathize, then criticize
“We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what’s wrong before telling them they are wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Three reasons it can
“The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won’t work or can’t happen, ask them to give three reasons it can.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Mistinguett: Kiss
“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.” —Mistinguett, singer (3 Apr 1875-1956).
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Emile Zola: Fate of animals
“The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.” -Emile Zola (2 Apr 1840-1902).
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Marlon Brando: Feel too much
“The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel too much.” —Marlon Brando.
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Warren Buffett: Not very complicated
“If you’re picking associates, pick out those whose behavior is somewhat better than yours, and you’ll drift in that direction. And similarly if you hang out with a bad bunch, you’re very likely to find your own behavior worse over time. Like Charlie says, the trite advice which Ben Franklin was handing out a few…
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Emile Zola: Live out loud
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” —Emile Zola.
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John C Maxwell: Average and achieving people
“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.” – John C. Maxwell.
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Omari Hardwick: I’m a poet
“As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, ‘Yo, you should rap,’ and I was like, ‘No.’ You know, the label was tough for me. I’m a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.” —Omari Hardwick.
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C S Lewis: What we practise
“What we practise, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.” —C S Lewis.
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Abraham Maslow: What one can be
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.” -Abraham Maslow, psychologist (1 Apr 1908-1970).
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Alberta Hunter: Blues
“Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.” —Alberta Hunter.
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Danielle Steel: Love is messy
“Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can’t avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works.” —Danielle Steel, Friends Forever.
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Dave Thomas: Shy code
“Write shy code – modules that don’t reveal anything unnecessary to other modules and that don’t rely on other modules’ implementations.” – Dave Thomas.
