Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Warren Buffett: Wisdom
“So, I urge you, if you’re trying to decide on the wisdom of repurchases, or of share issuances, that you don’t think in terms of book value. You don’t think in terms of specific P/Es. You don’t think in terms of any little model. But you think in terms of…. A) pick businesses you can…
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C S Lewis: Each day
“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.” —C S Lewis.
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Carlos Santana: Only passport
“One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.” —Carlos Santana.
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Simon Sinek: Making up
“We can make up for lost money, but we can’t make up for lost time.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Some distraction or other
“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.” —C S Lewis.
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Franz Kafka: Second the world
“In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.” —Franz Kafka, novelist (3 Jul 1883-1924).
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Warren Buffett: Realism and discipline
“The most important thing in investments is not having a high IQ, thank God. I mean, the important thing is realism and discipline. And you don’t need to be extraordinarily bright to do well in investments, if you are realistic and disciplined.” —Warren Buffett.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Eliminate all other factors
“Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in “The Sign of the Four”.
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Simon Sinek: Credit and responsibility
“A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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George McGovern: Dreaming up wars
“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” —George McGovern.
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Geneen Roth: Not a mistake
“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won’t discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.” — Geneen Roth.
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Herm Albright: Positive attitude
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” —Herm Albright.
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Andre Gide: Better to be hated
“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” —Andre Gide.
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G K Chesterton: Can’t see the problem
“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It’s that they can’t see the problem.” —G. K. Chesterton.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Silent lie
“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.” —Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
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Margery Allingham: Telling the truth
“Telling the truth is the basis of all classic art.” —Margery Allingham, writer.
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C S Lewis: Grandeur of Eros
“It is in the grandeur of Eros that the seeds of danger are concealed…For Eros, speaking with that very grandeur and displaying that very transcendence of self, may urge to evil as well as to good…The love which leads to cruel and perjured unions, even to suicide-pacts and murder, is not likely to be wandering…
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Simon Sinek: Failure
“The only ones who fear failure are those who have never tasted it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Molly Parker: Landscape
“The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.” —Molly Parker.
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Douglas Adams: Needed to be
“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere that I needed to be.” —Douglas Adams, writer.
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Pico Iyer: Loving and thinking
“Those who define themselves by what they love will always stir us more than those who define themselves by what they think.” —Pico Iyer.
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Maya Angelou: Bitterness versus anger
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” —Maya Angelou.
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Roald Amundsen: Greatest factor
“I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take…
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C S Lewis: Parachute
“We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to use it.” —C S Lewis.
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George Eliot: Failure in cleaving
“The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.” —George Eliot, writer and journalist.
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Margaret Bonnano: Day-to-day basis
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.” —Margaret Bonnano.
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C S Lewis: Real problem
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.” —C S Lewis.
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Nancy Sinatra: Little spot
“What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you’re gone, you’re history.” —Nancy Sinatra.
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Irvin D Yalom: Death anxiety
“Adults who are racked with death anxiety are not odd birds who have contracted some exotic disease, but men and women whose family and culture have failed to knit the proper protective clothing for them to withstand the icy chill of mortality.” —Irvin D. Yalom, psychiatrist and professor (b. 13 Jun 1931).
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Phil Plait: Let go of ideas that don’t pan out
“You have to let go of ideas that don’t pan out or else you’ll never see the bigger picture. And if you let it go you’ve learned from it, and won’t make that same mistake again.” —Phil Plait.
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Warren Buffett: Persuading
“The history that Charlie and I have had of persuading decent, intelligent people, who we thought were doing unintelligent things, to change their course of action has been poor…. So I would say that if you really think you’re in with people that have got a good business, but they’re going to keep doing dumb…
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Pasquier Quesnel: Zeal
“Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.” —Pasquier Quesnel.
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Georges St. Pierre: Training
“The way you train reflects the way you fight. People say I’m not going to train too hard, I’m going to do this in training, but when it’s time to fight I’m going to step up. There is no step up. You’re just going to do what you did every day.” — Georges St. Pierre.
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Herman Melville: Familiarity with danger
“Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring.” —Herman Melville, writer.
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C S Lewis: More Christians writing good literature
“The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.” —C S Lewis.
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Charlie Munger: Prepared mind
“The game in our kind of life is being able to recognize a good idea when…it rarely is presented to you. And I think that’s something you have to prepare for over a long period. What is the old saying? That opportunity comes to the prepared mind? And I don’t think you can teach people…
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Simone Veil: Culture
“Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.” —Simone Veil.
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Simon Sinek: Products
“Products should be used to reinforce, not define, who a company is.” —Simon Sinek.
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Steve Jobs: Trust in something
“You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.” —Steve Jobs, entrepreneur.
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C S Lewis: God is going to invade
“God is going to invade but what is the good of saying you are on His side then…There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really…
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Benjamin Graham: Pursue without any reference
“Study the past record of the stock market, study your own capabilities, and find out whether you can identify an approach to investment you feel would be satisfactory in your own case. And if you have done that, pursue that without any reference to what other people do or think or say.” —Benjamin Graham.
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.” —Simon Sinek.
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Max Jacob: Friendship
“Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesnt want to kill it.” —Max Jacob.
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Steve Jobs: Smart people
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” — Steve Jobs.
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C S Lewis: First faint gleam of heaven
“If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him…Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.” —C S Lewis.
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Warren Buffett: You can’t act every day
“There are no secrets in [the investing] business that only the priesthood knows…. It’s all out there in black and white. It’s a simple business…. It requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect…You do need a certain temperament that enables you to think for yourself. And then you have to…
