Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Simon Sinek: Losing versus failing
“There is a difference between losing and failing. Losing reflects the score. Failing reflects our attitude.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Margaret Atwood: Ignoring
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance; you have to work at it.” —Margaret Atwood, writer.
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Christopher Hitchens: Undesirable qualities
“Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life — except religion.” —Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (13 Apr 1949-2011).
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Warren Buffett: Ideal purchase
“Incidentally, the ideal purchase is something you like already when it’s selling at a price that makes you want to go out and buy more. And we probably should have done more of that in the past…. That’s one of the beauties of marketable securities. When you’re in a wonderful business, you do get a…
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Simon Sinek: Mature companies
“Mature companies fail because they forget WHY they were born.” —Simon Sinek.
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Thomas Jefferson: Style and principle
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” —Thomas Jefferson.
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Joshua Reynolds: Invention
“Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.” —Joshua Reynolds, artist.
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Henry Clay: Religions and governments
“All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.” —Henry Clay, statesman and orator (12 Apr 1777-1852).
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Warren Buffett: Scuttlebutt approach
‘You don’t want to be chasing down every idea. Therefore, you should have a strong presumption. You should be like a basketball coach who runs into a 7-footer on the street. You’re interested to start with. Now you’ve got to find out if you can keep him in school, if he’s coordinated and all of…
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Simon Sinek: The confident and the insecure
“The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope that something will stick.” —Simon Sinek.
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Andy Garcia: Not private work
“The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who’s seen my work knows everything about me.” —Andy Garcia.
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Leo Tolstoy: Patience and time
“There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time. They will do it all.” —Leo Tolstoy, writer.
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Leo Rosten: Conservative
“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.” —Leo Rosten, author (11 Apr 1908-1997) .
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Nassim Taleb: Skin in the game
“Now skin in the game brings simplicity—the disarming simplicity of things properly done. People who see complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones. As we saw, a bureaucratized system will increase in complication from the interventionism of people who sell complicated solutions because that’s what their position and training invite them…
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Vincent Gallo: Stay away from starches
“I don’t drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don’t smoke cigarettes and I don’t eat sugar and I don’t take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches.” —Vincent Gallo.
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Simon Sinek: Stories
“Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it shares what we stand for, not what we do.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jay Clayton: Security
“If I have a laundry token for washing my clothes, that’s not a security. But if I have a set of 10 laundry tokens, and the laundromats are to be developed, and (the tokens) are offered to me as something I can use in the future, and I’m buying them because I can sell them…
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Joan Didion: Character
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” Joan Didion, writer.
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Anne Lamont: In your own image
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” —Anne Lamott, writer (b. 10 Apr 1954).
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Peter Kaufman: Afraid of appearing foolish
“Lou Brock set the Major League record for stolen bases with the St. Louis Cardinals many years ago. And he once said, ‘Show me a man who’s afraid of appearing foolish and I’ll show you a man you can beat every time.’ And if you’re getting beat in life, chances are it’s because you’re afraid…
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Charlie Munger: Management bloopers
“One way to determine which is the good business and which is the bad one is to see which one is throwing management bloopers – pleasant, no-brainer decisions – time after time after time.” –Charlie Munger.
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Steven Seagal: 1000 interviews
“You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you’ve got a lot of inaccuracies out there.” —Steven Seagal.
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Simon Sinek: Confidence and courage
“So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.” —Simon Sinek.
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Tom Lehrer: Bad weather
“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” —Tom Lehrer, singer-songwriter and mathematician (b. 9 Apr 1928).
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Simon Sinek: Intelligence versus creativity
“Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.” —Simon Sinek.
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Kristen Stewart: Writing
“I do want to work on writing, because writing’s a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it’s intimidating as hell.” —Kristen Stewart.
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Bill Gates: Fanatics
“I think the world’s best companies are built by fanatics. [That means that you] work day and night. Sort of don’t worry about the possibility of failure. Every setback is just something to work a little bit harder at doing. And you really know what you’re trying to achieve…. And you’re going to change your…
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Kofi Annan: Wonderful advantage
“The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.” —Kofi Annan.
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Pearl S Buck: Halfway moment
“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” —Pearl S. Buck.
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Simon Sinek: Optimism
“Optimism is the ability to focus on where we’re going, not where we’re coming from.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Jackie Chan: Cinema reflects culture
“Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.” —Jackie Chan.
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Simon Sinek: No price in principles
“We cannot put a price on principles. There is no amount of money to justify doing what we do not believe in.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nicolas de Chamfort: Conscience
“Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.” —Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (6 Apr 1741-1794).
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Warren Buffett: High volatility
“If we have a business about which we’re extremely confident as to the business results, we’d prefer that its stock have high volatility. We’ll make more money in a business where we know what the end game will be if it bounces around a lot.” —Warren Buffett.
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Charlie Munger: Volatility in results
“As long as the odds are in our favor and we’re not risking the whole company on one throw of the dice or anything close to it, we don’t mind volatility in results. What we want are the favorable odds.” —Charlie Munger.
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Simon Sinek: Progress
“If we think of everything we have to do, we feel overwhelmed. If we do the one thing we need to do, we make progress.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Chances
“Leaders give us the chance to try and fail, then give us another chance to try and succeed.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Booker T Washington: Belittle my soul
“I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.” —Booker T. Washington, reformer, educator, and author (5 Apr 1856-1915).
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Simon Sinek: Greatness
“Greatness doesn’t start with a market opportunity, it starts with a problem that needs solving. The opportunity comes from marketing the solution.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Off the plan
“When we’re obsessed with the plan, we miss all the opportunities that exist off the plan.” —Simon Sinek.
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Maya Angelou: Diversity
“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” —Maya Angelou, poet (4 Apr 1928-2014).
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Warren Buffett: Couple of things
“I can do anything in the world I want to do but what I want to do is run Berkshire Hathaway. Now why do I want to run it that way? There’s a couple of things: A) I get to paint my own painting. I go down there every day and I feel like Michelangelo…
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Warren Buffett: Riskiness
“When we look at the future of businesses, we look at riskiness as being sort of a go/no-go valve. In other words, if we think that we simply don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, that doesn’t mean it’s risky for everyone. It means we don’t know – that it’s risky for us. It may…
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Ideal conditions
“An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply…
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Simon Sinek: Direction a leader points
“A movement only exists when people are willing to move, inspired to follow in the direction a leader points.“ —Simon Sinek.
