Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Jojo Moyes: Because
“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay.” —Jojo Moyes.
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Robert Pattinson: Persona
“Having a persona people recognize, it’s the thing that probably gets you paid the most – but it’s also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn’t want. ‘Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.” —Robert Pattinson.
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Van Wyck Brooks: Best in a cellar
“As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.” —Van Wyck Brooks.
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Graham & Dodd: Two dangers
“The cardinal defect of instability may not be regarded, therefore, as menacing the long-range development of common stocks as a whole. It does indeed exert a powerful temporary effect upon all business through the variations of the economic cycle, and it has permanently adverse effects upon individual enterprises and single industries. But of these two…
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Warren Buffett: Future prospects
“All we want to be in is businesses that we understand, run by people that we like, and priced attractively compared to the future prospects.” —Warren Buffett.
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Stephen Baldwin: Evolution
“Evolution isn’t true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?” —Stephen Baldwin.
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Friedrich Durrenmatt: Only art
“Learn to conquer your fears. That’s the only art we have to learn to master these days.” —Friedrich Durrenmatt.
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Salvador Dali: I am not mad
“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.” —Salvador Dali, painter (11 May 1904-1989).
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Simon Sinek: Challenges and stories
“The challenge of our unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of our accomplished past.” —Simon Sinek.
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Salvador Dali: Mistakes
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.” —Salvador Dali.
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C S Lewis: Something cannot be had in this world
“Most people, if they have really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.” —C S…
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Paul Black: Keep showing up
“The notion of ‘Keep Showing Up.’ I wish I would have got that earlier, because I think it would have been easier to endure through some very difficult periods of time. I wish I would have learned that early in my business career…. I would have liked to have somebody tell me: ‘Paul, keep showing…
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Bob Chapman: Parenting is leadership
“Everything I learned about parenting is leadership and everything I learned about leadership was wrong.” —Bob Chapman.
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Fred Astaire: Learning good manners
“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.” —Fred Astaire.
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Thomas Paine: Governing
“The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.” —Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (9 Feb 1737-1809).
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Simon Sinek: CEOs and COOs
“Great CEOs look up and out. Great COOs look down and in. It’s the partnership of their perspectives that make great companies.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Avoid being wrong
“You don’t have to do — we’ve said this before — but you don’t have to do exceptional things to get exceptional results. And some people think that if you jump over a seven-foot bar that the ribbon they pin on you is going to be worth more money than if you step over a…
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Charlie Munger: Appropriate labels
“So many people think if they just hire somebody with the appropriate labels they can do something very difficult. That is one of the most dangerous ideas a human being can have…. You don’t have to hire out your thinking if you keep it simple.” —Charlie Munger (1994 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting).
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Simon Sinek: Good versus bad leaders
“Good leaders are curious to hear ideas from others when solving a problem. Bad leaders care more that others hear their ideas.” —Simon Sinek.
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Glenda Jackson: Acting
“Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.” —Glenda Jackson.
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Louis Nizer: True religion
“True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.” —Louis Nizer, lawyer (6 Feb 1902-1994).
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Simon Sinek: Authorities and leaders
“Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.” —Simon Sinek.
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Harry S Truman: Dictatorship
“When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.” —Harry S Truman.
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Alexander Pushkin: Obey thy God
Alexander Pushkin as translated by Nabokov: “Obey thy God, and never mind, O Muse, the laurels or the stings: make it thy rule to be unstirred by praise as by abuse, and do not contradict the fool”.
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Charlie Munger: One-legged man in an ass-kicking contest
“If you’re going to live a long time, you have to keep learning. What you formerly knew is never enough. So if you don’t learn to constantly revise your earlier conclusions and get betters ones…you’re like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.” —Charlie Munger.
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Warren Buffett: Any place
“Any place you can find somebody that gives you insights into things you didn’t understand before—and maybe makes you a better person than you would have been before—that’s very lucky and you want to make the most of it.” —Warren Buffett.
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Richard Feynman: Doubt
“It is imperative in science to doubt; it is absolutely necessary, for progress in science, to have uncertainty as a fundamental part of your inner nature. To make progress in understanding, we must remain modest and allow that we do not know.” —Richard Feynman.
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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…
