Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Simon Sinek: No such thing
“There is no such thing as winning or losing in a game that has no end. There is only ahead and behind. There is no such thing as winning business, winning global politics or winning life.” —Simon Sinek.
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Luther Burbank: Jungle of weeds
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” —Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926).
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Anatoly Karpov: Extra points
“Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.” —Anatoly Karpov.
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Theodore Roosevelt: Greatness
“We must dare to be great, and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.” —Theodore Roosevelt.
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Maya Angelou: Words
“Words are things. Words get in your walls, into your rugs, and finally into you. You must be careful about the words you use.” —Maya Angelou.
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Seneca the Younger: Spurs and curbs
“I shall make whatever befalls me become a good thing, but I prefer that what befalls me should be comfortable and pleasant and unlikely to cause me annoyance: for you need not suppose that any virtue exists without labour, but some virtues need spurs, while others need the curb. As we have to check our…
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Arthur Conan Doyle: Talent and genius
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.” —Arthur Conan Doyle.
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William Beveridge: Scratch a pessimist
“Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.” —William Beveridge, economist and reformer (5 Mar 1879-1963).
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Mary Robinson: Absolute poverty
‘When I am asked, “What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?” I reply: “Absolute poverty.” This is not the answer most journalists expect. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. But it is true.’ —Mary Robinson, 7th President of Ireland (b. 21 May 1944) .
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Kinney & Landecker: Fat pitches
“Ideally, we like to invest in growing companies with a sustainable competitive advantage and attractive economics in combination with a management team that will intelligently redeploy or redistribute excess capital. In a world where it is difficult to find good ideas, our style is to diligently and patiently search the world for fat pitches, and…
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Eric Hoffer: Self-esteem
“There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice humility, is boundless.” —Eric Hoffer, The True Believer.
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Simon Sinek: Fighting
“Fight against something and we focus on the thing we hate. Fight for something and we focus on the thing we love.” —Simon Sinek.
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Plato: Hour of play
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” —Plato.
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George Gamow: Five billion years
“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!” —George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist (4 Mar 1904-1968).
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Steve Jobs: Design
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” —Steve Jobs.
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William Hazlitt: Test of greatness
“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.” —William Hazlitt, writer.
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Charlie Munger: Most important question of all
“Why — that’s the most important question of all. And it doesn’t apply just to investment. It applies to the whole human experience. If you want to get smart, the question you’ve got to keep asking is: Why? Why? Why? Why? And you have to relate the answers to a structure of deep theory. And…
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Warren Buffett: Individual businesses
“Charlie and I don’t think about the market. And Ben [Graham] didn’t very much. I think he made a mistake to occasionally try and place a value on it. We look at individual businesses. And we don’t think of stocks as little items that wiggle around on the paper and that have charts attached to…
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Joey Ramone: MTV
“For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It’s opened up everything so wide that it’s possible for everyone to have different ideas.” —Joey Ramone.
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Marya Mannes: In reality
“Those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.” —Marya Mannes, writer and critic.
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Randy Pausch: Genuine apology
A genuine apology has three parts: 1. What I did was wrong. 2. I am sorry that I hurt you. 3. How do I make it better? —Professor Randy Pausch.
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Omar Khayyam: Book of verses
“A book of verses underneath the bough, / A jug of wine, a loaf of bread — and thou / Beside me singing in the wilderness — / Oh, wilderness were paradise enow!” —Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and physician (18 May 1048-1131).
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Phil Knight: Just keep going
“Let everyone else call your idea crazy…just keep going. Whatever comes, just don’t stop…I believe it’s the best advice – maybe the only advice – any of us should ever give.” —Phil Knight.
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Andreas Katsulas: What’s better?
“Well, you know, what’s better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?” —Andreas Katsulas.
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Simon Sinek: Find joy
“The best way to find joy in our lives or overcome struggle is with the help of others.” —Sinon Sinek.
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Andre Gide: Impossible
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.” —Andre Gide, author.
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Alan Kay: Change in perspective
“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.” —Alan Kay, computer scientist (b. 17 May 1940).
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Art de Vany: Ensemble of stochastic life paths
“Each of us has what I call an ensemble of stochastic life paths–the choices we make. You make each choice in life based on your understanding of the possibility that it will take you where you want to be. But you don’t determine the outcome, only the probabilities. Each path leads to more choices: a…
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Nassim Taleb: Change
“Change for the sake of change, as we see in architecture, food, and lifestyle, is frequently the opposite of progress. As I have explained in Antifragile, too high a rate of mutation prevents locking in the benefits of previous changes: evolution (and progress) requires some, but not too frequent, variation.” —Nassim Taleb, Skin in the…
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Simon Sinek: Trustworthy
“Being right doesn’t make us trustworthy. Being honest makes us trustworthy.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alan Kay: Really serious
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” —Alan Kay.
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Wiles of War: Make a false move
“Make a false move, not to pass it for a genuine one but to transform it into a genuine one after the enemy has been convinced of its falsity.” — The Wiles Of War: 36 Military Strategies From Ancient China.
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C S Lewis: Mental pain
‘Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”‘ —C S Lewis.
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William H Seward: Policies they pursue
“I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.” —William H. Seward, US Secretary of State, governor, senator (16 May 1801-1872).
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Warren Buffett: Some very useful religions
“I’ve said in investing…that there’s more than one way to get to heaven. And there isn’t a true religion in this, but there’s some very useful religions.” –Warren Buffett.
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Warren Buffett: Haystacks, not needles
“The speed of information really doesn’t make any difference to us. It’s the processing and finally coming to some judgment that actually has some utility…it’s a judgment about the price of a business or a part of a business, a security, versus what it’s essentially worth. And none of that involves anything to do, really,…
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Pierce Brosnan: Humiliation
“Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It’s one of the deepest pains of being human.” —Pierce Brosnan.
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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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Arthur Schopenhauer: Men and animals
“Men are the devils of the earth and the animals are its tormented souls.” —Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (22 Feb 1788-1860).
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Warren Buffett: No degree of difficulty factor
“One of the interesting things about investment is that there’s no degree of difficulty factor. I mean, if you’re going to go diving in the Olympics and try to win a gold medal, you get paid more, in effect, for certain kinds of dives than others because they’re more difficult. And they properly adjust for…
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Alison Jackson: Art and advertising
“Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that’s what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.” —Alison Jackson.
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George Washington: Character of an honest man
“I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” —George Washington.
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Washington Irving: Truest friend
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate…
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Simon Sinek: Disappoint with the truth
“It’s better to disappoint with the truth than appease with a lie.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marguerite de Valois: Cut the matter short
“The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.” —Marguerite de Valois.
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Constantin Brancusi: Inhabited sculpture
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.” —Constantin Brancusi, sculptor (19 Feb 1876-1957).
