Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Stephen Gately: Rose that blushes with my love
“Oh, rose that blushes with my love Please help me to compose The words I wish to speak aloud To one who’d make me proud If she would hold her hand in mine And both our hearts entwine..” —Stephen Gately, The Tree of Seasons.
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Ronan Keating: Sweat, blood and tears
“Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don’t know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!” —Ronan Keating.
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Alice Temperley: Heritage
“You have to stay true to your heritage; that’s what your brand is about.” —Alice Temperley.
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Stefan Persson: Loyalty
“Loyalty is not won by being first. It is won by being best.” —Stefan Persson.
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Milena Glimbovski: Customer’s lifestyle
“Be your own best customer. Live your customer’s lifestyle.” —Milena Glimbovski.
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Mark Cuban: Best possible business
“Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.” —Mark Cuban.
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Meg Whitman: Remarkable
“When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.” —Meg Whitman.
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Geoffrey Zakarian: Lot of noise
“Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what you’re not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.” —Geoffrey Zakarian.
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Rafe Offer: Stay true to your values
“Stay true to your values. That’s why you were a success in the first place, and that’s how you make incredible things happen.” —Rafe Offer.
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Steve Davidson: Black cat in an unlit room
“Forecasting future events is often like searching for a black cat in an unlit room, that may not even be there.” —Steve Davidson.
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Oscar Wilde: Success
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” —Oscar Wilde.
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Anna Wintour: True vision
“Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can’t really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing…
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Margaret Cho: Denying your own existence
“If you say you’re not a feminist, you’re almost denying your own existence.” —Margaret Cho.
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Gladys Knight: You can’t please everyone
“Believe me when I say this: you can’t please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn’t necessarily on your set list.” —Gladys Knight.
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Seth Klarman: Easier said than done
“While investors will obviously achieve the best results by remaining rational thinkers at all times, this is easier said than done. In the financial markets, emotion often takes over, and greed and fear come to dominate investor behavior. Even those who are aware of this, who expect always to invest rationally and to be able…
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Ogden Nash: Either or
“Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow.” —Ogden Nash, I’m a Stranger Here Myself.
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Paulo Coelho: Be prepared
“Be ready to pay the price of your dreams. Free cheese can only be found in a mousetrap.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Carrie Underwood: Suck-it-up-and-move-on person
“I’m a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” —Carrie Underwood.
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Eunice de Souza: Meeting poets
“Meeting poets I am disconcerted sometimes by the colour of their socks the suspicion of a wig the wasp in the voice and an air, sometimes, of dankness. Best to meet in poems: cool speckled shells in which one hears a sad but distant sea.” —Eunice de Souza.
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Francois Rochon: Cassandra
“Trying to predict market quotations – for a stock, a sector or the whole market – is futile. It is astounding to see how many investment ‘professionals’ continue to waste their time and talent on an activity that has so many times proved its uselessness. And what is most surprising is that many investors still…
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Howard Marks: Rarely same person twice
“In both economic forecasting and investment management, it’s worth noting that there’s usually someone who gets it exactly right… but it’s rarely the same person twice. ” —Howard Marks.
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Warren Buffett: Track records
“I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a…
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Warren Buffett: Frailties of the prophet
“My own investment philosophy has developed around the theory that prophecy reveals far more about the frailties of the prophet than it reveals of the future. ” —Warren Buffett.
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Charlie Munger: Sheep guts
“People have always had this craving to have someone tell them the future. Long ago, kings would hire people to read sheep guts. There’s always been a market for people who pretend to know the future. Listening to today’s forecasters is just as crazy as when the king hired the guy to look at the…
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Warren Buffett: Poison
“I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.” —Warren Buffett.
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John Kay: Differences between forecasts
“The differences between forecasts are trivial relative to the difference between all forecasts and what happens. ” —John Kay.
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Howard Marks: Alternative outcomes
“Most forecasts don’t allow for alternative outcomes” —Howard Marks.
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Ian Wilson: No amount of sophistication
“No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all of your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future.” — Ian Wilson.
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Derek Thompson: Future of popularity
“In all sorts of markets—music, film, art, and politics—the future of popularity will be harder to predict as the broadcast power of radio and television democratizes and the channels of exposure grow…. The gatekeepers had their day. Now there are simply too many gates to keep.” —Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in…
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Nate Silver: Noisy data
“Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to take toward forecasting, especially in a field like economics where the data is so noisy.” —Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t.
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Ruchir Sharma: Forecast so far in the future
“The old rule of forecasting was to make as many forecasts as possible and publicise the ones you got right. The new rule is to forecast so far in the future, no one will know you got it wrong.” —Ruchir Sharma, Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles.
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William James Moore: Measure
“The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing.” —William James Moore, On Character and Mental Toughness.
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Piyush Goyal: All lights are on
“In New York, lights are on the whole night; there are offices where not a single person is working, but all lights are on. The street lights at the White House are lit all the day. Why? And we are being told not to use coal.” —Piyush Goyal.
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Dolly Parton: Rainbow
“I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.” —Dolly Parton.
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Vicki Baum: Marriage
“Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.” —Vicki Baum.
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Jack Nicholson: Never fight anybody you don’t love
“Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don’t love.” —Jack Nicholson.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel: Purity of dogma
“We worry more about the purity of dogma than about the integrity of love.” —-Abraham Joshua Heschel, rabbi and professor (11 Jan 1907-1972).
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Bureaucracy
“Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Gina Rodriguez: No to projects
“I’ve specifically decided to say no to projects that weren’t advancing Latinos, that weren’t showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.” —Gina Rodriguez.
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Simon Sinek: Connect with people
“Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.” —Simon Sinek.
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Heath Ledger: Never do it for free
“If you’re good at something, never do it for free. ” —Heath Ledger as The Joker.
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Nikki Bella: Support systems and support groups
“Support systems and support groups are so important because that’s what makes you stronger.” —Nikki Bella.
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David Attenborough: Save a rhinoceros
“The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there’s a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.” —David Attenborough.
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Jojo Siwa: Tell a teacher, principal or your parents
“It’s a very hard goal. But, what I want is to tell people who are getting bullied to stand up to the bully and not let it be OK – tell a teacher, the principal, or your parents. I want people to stand up and to be confident.” —JoJo Siwa.
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Bret Baier: Freedom
“Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among…
