Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Simon Sinek: Great structures
“An architect imagines what if. A builder figures out how to. Great structures emerge only when the two work well together.” —Simon Sinek.
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Willa Cather: Happiness
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” —Willa Cather, novelist (7 Dec 1873-1947).
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Tom Waits: Buried
“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge, quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.” —Tom Waits.
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Simon Sinek: Failure
“Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Imprisoned in a room
“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Warren Buffett: Say no to almost everything
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” —Warren Buffett.
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George H W Bush: Our will is greater
“I do not mistrust the future. I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger. Our challenges are great, but our will is greater.” —George H. W. Bush.
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Charles John Darling: Timid question
“A timid question will always receive a confident answer.” —Charles John Darling, lawyer, judge, and politician (6 Dec 1849-1936).
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Charlie Munger: Ponzi scheme
“What makes common stock prices so hard to predict is that a general liquid market for common stocks creates, from time to time, either in sectors of the market or in the whole market, a Ponzi scheme. In other words, you have an automatic process where people get sucked in and other people come in…
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Alfred Eisenstaedt: Click with people
“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” —Alfred Eisenstaedt.
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Ernest Hemingway: Bullfighting
“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.” —Ernest Hemingway.
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Christina Rossetti: Work never begun
“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.” —Christina Rossetti, poet (5 Dec 1830-1894).
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Warren Buffett: Volatility
“The key to [Benjamin] Graham’s approach to investing is not thinking of stocks as stocks or part of a stock market. Stocks are part of a business. People in this room own a piece of a business. If the business does well, they’re going to do all right as long as they don’t pay way…
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Martin Van Buren: Sober Second Thought
“The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.” —Martin Van Buren.
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Regina Dugan: Supposed to be hard
“The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way. It’s supposed to be hard.” —Regina Dugan, businesswoman and technology developer.
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Simon Sinek: Not a competition
“Life is not a competition; it’s a game. It’s not about winning or losing; it’s about all the fun we can have before it ends.” —Simon Sinek.
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Thomas Carlyle: Concentrating powers
“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.” —Thomas Carlyle,…
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Graham & Dodd: Indicated earning power
“For what the investor chiefly wants to learn from an annual report is the indicated earning power under the given set of conditions, i.e., what the company might be expected to earn year after year if the business conditions prevailing during the period were to continue unchanged.” —Benjamin Graham and David Dodd (Security Analysis: Sixth…
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Wassily Kandinsky: Hand that plays
“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.” —Wassily Kandinsky.
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David Leinweber: Frustrate them for a lifetime
“Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime.” —David Leinweber.
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Simon Sinek: Completely unrealistic
“Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: When man approaches God
“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?” C S Lewis, The Four Loves.
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Joseph Conrad: Conscience
“All a man can betray is his conscience.” —Joseph Conrad, novelist (3 Dec 1857-1924).
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Joseph Conrad: Being a woman
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.” —Joseph Conrad, Chance.
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Nelly Furtado: Connection to nature
“Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.” —Nelly Furtado.
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Rachel Carson: Reserves of strength
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” —Rachel Carson, biologist and conservationist.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Envy
“It is much harder to conceal one’s envy than to detect that of others.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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George H W Bush: Responsibility and opportunity
“In the wake of the Cold War, in a world where we are the only remaining superpower, it is the role of the United States to marshal its moral and material resources to promote a democratic peace. It is our responsibility, it is our opportunity to lead. There is no one else.” George H W…
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Simon Sinek: Work smart, play always
‘”We work hard, play hard” sounds terribly unhealthy. I think we would all be a lot healthier, happier and find greater balance in our lives if we learn to work smart and play always.’ —Simon Sinek.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Rationality
“Rationality resides in what you do, not in what you think or in what you “believe” (skin in the game)…. Rationality is about survival.” —Nassim Taleb, Skin in the Game.
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Warren Buffett: Investment and speculation
“All investment is, is laying out some money now to get more money back in the future. Now, there’s two ways of looking at the getting the money back. One is from what the asset itself will produce. That’s investment. One is from what somebody else will pay you for it later on, irrespective of…
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Tyler Joseph: Music
“Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.” —Tyler Joseph.
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Winston Churchill: Strategy and results
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” — Winston Churchill.
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Simon Sinek: Culture
“A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Eckhart Tolle: Natural state
“The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn’t. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Abraham Lincoln: Slaves and masters
“As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master.” —Abraham Lincoln.
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Gordon Parks: Subject matter
“The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.” —Gordon Parks.
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G K Chesterton: Internal honesty and peace
“Abolish religion if you like. Throw everything on secular government if you like. But do not be surprised if a machinery that was never meant to do anything but secure external decency and order fails to secure internal honesty and peace.” —G K Chesterton.
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Chinua Achebe: Mask dancing
“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.” —Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (16 Nov 1930-2013.
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Wendell Phillips: Write on my gravestone
‘Write on my gravestone: “Infidel, Traitor”—- infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.’ —Wendell Phillips, human rights activist and attorney (29 Nov 1811-1884).
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G K Chesterton: Extraordinary person
“A man who attacks the Christian religion in the modern world is not an unheard-of or extraordinary person. The extraordinary person is the person who defends the Christian religion.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Ring of administrators
“The trouble with modern England is not how many or how few people vote; it is that, however many people vote, a small ring of administrators do what they please. Before people can vote against this ring, people must know about it; and the ring has decided people shall not know.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Public education
“Public education has not produced an educated public.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Let’s invest in people
“Let’s invest in people, not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people, and good people can always make a bad idea better.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Dogmatic without knowing it
“The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it.” —G K Chesterton.
