Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Dorothy Parker: Quicksilver
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it, and it darts away.” —Dorothy Parker, author (22 Aug 1893-1967).
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Howard Marks: Judgment
“There can’t be a rule that always works…. These things cannot be reduced to a rule. The market operates so as to confound rule makers…. It all comes down to judgment. If we’re going to have superior investment performance we have to have superior judgment. You can work on your processes, both intellectually and emotionally,…
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G K Chesterton: Truth is sacred
“Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Diane Abbott: Junk food
“Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.” —Diane Abbott.
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Erma Bombeck: Laugh at it
“If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.” —Erma Bombeck, humorist.
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Stephen Fry: Incurious
“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oldest and most foolish failing there is.” — Stephen Fry.
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Simon Sinek: Experimentation
“The value of experimentation is not the trying. It’s the trying again after the experiment fails.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Children
“Children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.” —G K Chesterton.
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Mark Haddon: Prime numbers
“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.” —Mark Haddon.
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Daisaku Ikeda: Life is best lived
“Life is best lived by being bold and daring. People tend to grow fearful when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions..” —Daisaku Ikeda.
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G K Chesterton: When we are miserable
“A man does not yield when the mere universe has turned against him; he yields when his own heart has turned against him. We surrender, not when circumstances are miserable, but when we are miserable.” —G K Chesterton.
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Charlie Munger: Valued in two different ways
“Well, generally, you can say that stocks are valued in two different ways. One, they’re valued much the way wheat is valued, in terms of its perceived practical utility to the user of the wheat. And there’s a second way that stocks are valued, which is the way Rembrandts are valued. And to some extent,…
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G K Chesterton: Women are not cowards
“If there is one thing that is glaringly obvious in human life, it is that women are not cowards.” –G K Chesterton.
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Will Smith: Let God
“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” —Will Smith.
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Rumi: Your road alone
“It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” — Rumi.
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Anonymous: Closed to different thought processes
“You can argue with a mind which is willing to soak in information and learn; not with one that is closed to different thought processes.” —Anonymous.
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Simon Sinek: Leaders
“Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nia Vardalos: Enough
“You’re not ethnic enough. You’re not fat enough. You’re not thin enough. You’re not blond enough. You’re not dark enough. You’re not young enough. You’re not old enough.” —Nia Vardalos.
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Black Elk: Wiser than waking
“Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.” —Black Elk, medicine man and teacher.
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Jeff Bezos: Obsessive-compulsive focus on customer
“The number one thing that has made us successful by far is obsessive-compulsive focus on the customer, as opposed to obsession over the competitor.” —Jeff Bezos.
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Paul Gosar: Falling for everything
“Aren’t we supposed to be standing for something instead of falling for everything?” —Paul Gosar.
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G K Chesterton: Preaching to the converted
“I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.” —G K Chesterton.
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Eckhart Tolle: Not who you are
“When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Nick Cave: Cannibals
“But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten . .” —Nick Cave.
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G K Chesterton: Philosophy
“What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Any injustice I like
“When you have accustomed men to what is mentally wrong, you have half-accustomed them to what is morally wrong. Give me fifty years of any anomaly I choose, and I will undertake to carry through quite easily any injustice that I like.” —G K Chesterton.
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Graham and Dodd: Not the immutable truth
“It is necessary to caution the analyst against overconfidence in the practical utility of his findings. It is always good to know the truth, but it may not always be wise to act upon it, particularly in Wall Street. And it must always be remembered that the truth that the analyst uncovers is first of…
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Simon Sinek: Leader without a title
“A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.” —Simon Sinek.
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Bill Murray: In Japan
“In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can’t help you either. Nothing makes any sense. Theyre very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you’re there.” —Bill Murray.
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G K Chesterton: No possible defense
“There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.” —G K Chesterton.
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Sara Teasdale: Plowed by pain
“My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.” —Sara Teasdale, poet (8 Aug 1884-1933).
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C S Lewis: Perfect church service
“The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.” —C S Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: Chase the dream
“We’d achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.” —Simon Sinek.
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Salma Hayek: Beauty
“People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing you are the beholder.” — Salma Hayek.
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Al Oerter: True introspective state
“To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.” —Al Oerter.
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Richard Hofstadter: Mood of a society
“One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.” —Richard Hofstadter, historian (6 Aug 1916-1970).
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Alan B Shepard: Research and development
“And I think that still is true of this business – which is basically research and development – that you probably spend more time planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope wth them, than you do for things to go right.” — Alan B. Shepard.
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Cunningham’s Law: Post the wrong answer
“The best way to get the right answer [..] is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.” — Cunningham’s Law.
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Christian Lous Lange: All species
“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.” —Christian Lous Lange.
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Hafez: Fear
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.” — Hāfez.
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Dr. Robert H Schuller: What would you attempt to do?
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” —Dr. Robert H Schuller.
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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein: Improbable
“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.” —Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein, writer.
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Warren Buffett: When we look at businesses
“When we look at businesses, we try to think of what can go wrong with them. We try to look [for] businesses that are good businesses now, and we think about what can go wrong with them. If we can think of very much that can go wrong with them, we just forget it. We…
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Absence
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
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John Ruskin: Highest reward
“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.” —John Ruskin.
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Sydney J Harris: Elitism
“Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.” —Sydney J. Harris, journalist (14 Sep 1917-1986).
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Solomon Asch: Social acts
“Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated… No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.” —Solomon Asch.
