Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Simon Sinek: Leader’s vision
“Leaders may inspire, but only when the people choose to act does the leader’s vision become a movement.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Change
“We generally look at businesses and believe that change is likely to work against us. We do not think we have great ability to predict where change is going to lead. We think we have some ability to find businesses where we don’t think change is going to be very important.” —Warren Buffett (1996 Berkshire…
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Simon Sinek: Pursue
“Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Robert Frost: Sweetest dream
“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.” —Robert Frost, poet.
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John Cage: New ideas
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” —John Cage, composer.
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Daniel Dennett: Scholar
“A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.” —Daniel Dennett, philosopher, writer, and professor (b. 28 Mar 1942) .
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Stephen Colbert: Agnostic versus atheist
“Isn’t an agnostic just an atheist without balls?” —Stephen Colbert.
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Warren Buffett: Patsy
“If you buy a stock and it goes down and that upsets you, it obviously means you think the market knows more about the company than you do. In that case you’re the patsy. If you want to buy more because you know the business is worth just as much as when you bought it,…
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Malcolm Gladwell: Practice
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. Practice is the thing you do that makes you good.” —Malcolm Gladwell.
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Sara Gilbert: Smart enough and stupid enough
“You’ve got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.” —Sara Gilbert.
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Brooke Shields: Honesty with conpassion
“Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.” —Brooke Shields.
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John Paul Stephens: Complete neutrality
“The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.” —John Paul Stevens.
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Lady Gaga: Bullying
“I’ve been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don’t have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.” —Lady Gaga.
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Edith Wharton: Little healing in its touch
“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.” —-Edith Wharton, novelist (24 Jan 1862-1937) .
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Sean Penn: Innocence
“It’s only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.” —Sean Penn.
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Robin Wright: Look better the next day
“If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.” —Robin Wright.
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Alfred de Vigny: History
“History is a novel whose author is the people.” —Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, and novelist (27 Mar 1797-1863).
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Ingrid Bergman: Train your intuition
“You must train your intuition – you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.” —Ingrid Bergman.
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Garry Shandling: Nice guys
“Nice guys finish first. If you don’t know that, then you don’t know where the finish line is.” —Garry Shandling.
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Marcin Treder: Design leader
“The key task of a design leader is to become the worst designer on the team.”—Marcin Treder.
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Brie Larson: More to women
‘I feel like it’s too easy to just say, “We’ll just change the name of this male character to a female, but have her do all the same things that a male does.” I don’t believe in that. I think there’s something else. I think there’s more to women than that.’ —Brie Larson.
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Edward Snowden: Scandal
“Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.” —Edward Snowden.
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Benjamin Graham: Measurement no longer dependable
“Unfortunately in this kind of work, where you are trying to determine relationships based upon past behavior, the almost invariable experience is that by the time you have had a long enough period to give you sufficient confidence in your form of measurement, just then new conditions supersede and the measurement is no longer dependable…
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Christina Aguilera: Ocean
“I’m an ocean, because I’m really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.” —Christina Aguilera.
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Teyana Taylor: Harlem
“Harlem is a stage. It’s like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.” —Teyana Taylor.
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Burt Reynolds: Get back into style
“If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style…like me.” —Burt Reynolds.
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Tiffany Trump: Natural-born encourager
“My dad is a natural-born encourager. The last person who will ever tell you to lower your sights or give up your dream.” —Tiffany Trump.
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Quentin Tarantino: Tell the truth
“A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.” —Quentin Tarantino.
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Simon Sinek: Value of emotions
“The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Bernice Johnson Reagon: Life’s challenges
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you — they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” —Bernice Johnson Reagon, musician and activist.
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Richard Dawkins: Evidence
“Evidence is the only good reason to believe anything.” —Richard Dawkins, biologist and author (b. 26 Mar 1941).
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Simon Sinek: Three quarters
“Three quarters of an answer is better than an answer and a half. Say more by saying less.” —Simon Sinek.
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Paul McCartney: In the end
“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” —Paul Mccartney.
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Jennifer Hudson: New way
“The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.” —Jennifer Hudson.
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Charlize Theron: Ironic
“It’s ironic that we’ve built the beauty world around 20-year-olds, when they have no f – kin’ concept about wisdom, what life is about, having a few relationships below [their] belt and feeling hardships, to grow into [their] skin and feel confident within [themselves] and to feel the value of who [they] are, not because…
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Sean Penn: Less self-conscious life
“There’s the old notion that where there’s choice, there’s chaos, and where there’s no choice, there’s clarity. If you’ve got no choice, you’ve gotta be there, and you’ve gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.” —Sean Penn.
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Keira Knightley: Lonelier process
“Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don’t have any rehearsal time in film. You don’t shape it together… with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn’t the film side.” —Keira Knightley.
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Margaret Thatcher: Small currents as well as great tides
“History is made by people: Its movement depends on small currents as well as great tides.” —Margaret Thatcher, prime minister.
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George Bernard Shaw: Entertain
“The best way to get your point across is to entertain.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Robert Smith: Fourth industrial revolution
“The fourth industrial revolution is real and it is global. It relies on the ability to harness the data that is captured from real-time interactions that are taking place within the networks of their customers.” —Robert Smith.
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Robert Smith: Critical thinker
“Listen to who is the critical thinker about the platform as opposed to the product.” —Robert Smith.
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Robert Smith: Better than first-lien debt
“Software contracts are better than first-lien debt. You realize a company will not pay the interest payment on their first lien until after they pay their software maintenance or subscription fee. We get paid our money first. Who has the better credit? He can’t run his business without our software.” —Robert Smith.
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Robert Smith: Taste like chicken
“Software companies taste like chicken. They’re selling different products, but 80 percent of what they do is pretty much the same.” —Robert Smith.
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Michael Porter: Operational effectiveness
“Operational effectiveness is about things that you really shouldn’t have to make choices on; it’s about what’s good for everybody and about what every business should be doing.” —Michael Porter.
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Howard Marks: Have some knowledge
“If you are investing based on a fact that everybody knows, it can’t possibly constitute an advantage and it can’t possibly have been omitted from the price. So, you must have some knowledge that is different from that of others.” —Howard Marks.
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Charlie Munger: Owning good companies
“Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relation to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game. If all you needed to do is to figure out what company is better than others, everyone would make a lot of…
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Philip Kerr: Scottish independence
“I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse.” —Philip Kerr.
