Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Abraham Flexner: Curiosity
“Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the outstanding characteristic of modern thinking. It is not new. It goes back to Galileo, Bacon, and to Sir Isaac Newton, and it must be absolutely unhampered. Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity and the less they are…
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Charlie Munger: Keep learning
“If you don’t keep learning, other people will pass you by.” —Charlie Munger.
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Charlie Munger: Discipline, hard work and practice
“If you’re going to be an investor, you’re going to make some investments where you don’t have all the experience you need. But if you keep trying to get a little better over time, you’ll start to make investments that are virtually certain to have a good outcome. The keys are discipline, hard work, and…
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Karl Marx: Society
“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.” —Karl Marx.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Point of self-criticism
“One of the sure signs of maturity is the ability to rise to the point of self-criticism.” —Martin Luther King Jr.,civil rights leader.
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Norman Mailer: No justice
“To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there’s more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of…
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Ray Dalio: Five steps to success
“As I say, there are five steps to success. First, your goals. You want to have audacious goals. You have to know what the goals are. Second, on your way to your goals you’re going to have your problems, your mistakes. So you have to identify and not tolerate your problems. Then, third, you have…
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Audrey Hepburn: I believe in pink
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” —Audrey Hepburn.
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“Leadership is an education and the best leaders think of themselves as the students, not the teachers.” —Simon Sinek.
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Good advice
“A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice.” —Niccolo Machiavelli, political philosopher and author (3 May 1469-1527).
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Charlie Munger: investment game
“The investment game always involves considering both quality and price. And the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It’s just that simple.” —Charlie Munger.
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Warren Buffett: Level of certainty
“We basically believe that when you’re talking about quality, [you’re talking about] the level of certainty you have that a business will perform as you expect it to perform over a very long period of time.” —Warren Buffett.
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders know that the total knowledge of those around them is vastly greater than everything they know alone.” —Simon Sinek.
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Seeing and experiencing
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” —Niccolo Machiavelli.
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Stephen King: Simple as that
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” —Stephen King.
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John McDonald: Poker hand
“The poker hand must at all times be concealed behind the mask of inconsistency. The good poker player must avoid set practices and act at random, going so far , on occasion, as to violate the elementary principles of correct play.” —John McDonald.
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Winston Churchill: Bodyguard of lies
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” —Winston Churchill.
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Simon Sinek: Directions and direction
“Directions are instructions given to explain HOW. Direction is a vision offered to explain WHY.” —Simon Sinek.
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Benjamin Spock: Man
“Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he’s potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of…
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Nick Hornby: Badly written or badly read
“We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too.” —Nick Hornby.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Mind free from bias
“It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.” —Simone de Beauvoir, writer, philosopher and activist.
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Joseph Addison: No virtue, but on his own side
“A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side.” —Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1 May 1672-1719).
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Mika Salmi: First and last impression
“Life is full of moments where we make an impact on other people and this is especially true at work. We can’t always control how we are perceived at every moment. But we do have two instances when we can imprint how we will be perceived – – – the first and last impression. ”…
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David Tepper: Riding the river
“If I go through my career, there’s a lot of disappointments; there’s a lot of things that didn’t go right. But those aren’t the things that make you. It’s how you bounce back, and where you move on from there—and what you learn from those things. It’s kind of ‘the river flows’…. You have to…
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Seneca: True estimate
“It is above all things necessary to form a true estimate of oneself, because as a rule we think that we can do more than we are able.” —Seneca.
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Anne Frank: Alone with the heavens
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens.” —Anne Frank, diarist.
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Annie Dillard: Parasitic insects
“I learn that ten percent of all the world’s species are parasitic insects. It is hard to believe. What if you were an inventor, and you made ten percent of your inventions in such a way that they could only work by harnessing, disfiguring, or totally destroying the other ninety percent?” —Annie Dillard, author (b.…
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Verlyn Klinkenborg: Excellent writing
“One of the hardest things about learning to read well is learning to believe that every sentence has been consciously, purposely shaped by the writer. This is only credible in the presence of excellent writing.” —Verlyn Klinkenborg.
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G H Hardy: All in the way of business
“If the Archbishop of Canterbury says he believes in God, that’s all in the way of business, but if he says he doesn’t, one can take it he means what he says.” —G. H. Hardy.
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Willie Nelson: Getting along
“I got along without you before I met you and I’ll get along without you a long time after you’re gone.” —Willie Nelson.
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Neil Strauss: Biggest breakthroughs
“It is the ideas that don’t make sense, the ideas that you resist, the ideas that seem stupid, the ideas that you mentally write-off, and especially the ideas that you form logical arguments against that will lead to your biggest breakthroughs.” —Neil Strauss.
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Karl Popper: Greatest intellectual sin
“The new basic principle is that in order to learn to avoid making mistakes, we must learn from our mistakes. To cover up mistakes is, therefore, the greatest intellectual sin.” — Karl Popper.
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Henri Poincare: Science
“Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.” —Henri Poincare.
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Duke Ellington: Deadline
“I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.” —Duke Ellington, jazz pianist, composer, and conductor (29 Apr 1899-1974).
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Penelope Cruz: Someone else’s point of view
“You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else’s point of view.” —Penelope Cruz.
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Roy T Bennett: Negativity
“Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” —Roy T Bennett.
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Arthur Koestler: Creative activity
“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” —Arthur Koestler, writer and journalist.
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Hans Rosling: Very serious possibilist
“I am not an optimist. I am a very serious possibilist.” –– Hans Rosling.
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Mary Wollstonecraft: Woman’s sceptre
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” —Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797).
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John F Kennedy: Let every nation know
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” —John F Kennedy.
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Peter L Bernstein: Halfway home
‘Time is the dominant factor in gambling. Risk and time are opposite sides of the same coin, for if there were no tomorrow there would be no risk. Time transforms risk, and the nature of risk is shaped by the time horizon: the future is the playing field. Time matters most when decisions are irreversible.…
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Simon Sinek: Bosses versus leaders
“A boss who micromanages is like a coach who wants to get in the game. Leaders guide and support, then sit back to cheer from the sidelines.” —Simon Sinek.
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Dante Alighieri: Worldly fame
“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.” —Dante Alighieri.
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George Bernard Shaw: A fool’s brain
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.” —George Bernard Shaw, playwright.
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik: Night and morn
“There never was night that had no morn.” —Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, poet and novelist (26 Apr 1826-1887).
