Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Elon Musk: Tesla
“Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you’ll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be…
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Cara Delevingne: One life
“You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don’t see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.” —Cara Delevingne.
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Shuri: Just because something works
“Just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.” —Shuri, Black Panther.
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Eric Hoffer: Propaganda
“Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.” —Eric Hoffer.
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Elton John: Mars
“Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it’s cold as hell.” —Elton John.
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Emily Ratajkowski: Boy’s club
“Hollywood is a boys’ club, and that’s something I thought was a stereotype – and it’s not. That really shocked me. Still shocks me. Everyone’s helping their buddies out and pressing their buddies and playing tennis with their buddies and making movies with their buddies, and that grosses me out.” —Emily Ratajkowski.
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Elon Musk: Read our DNA
“Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code — with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.” —Elon Musk.
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Winston Churchill: Most brilliant achievement
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” —Winston Churchill.
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Larry Ellison: Primary goal versus primary role
“A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.” —Larry Ellison.
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Ed Sheeran: Best revenge
“Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve.” —Ed Sheeran.
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Grace Kelly: Indiscreet
“I’ve been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet.”…
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Sigourney Weaver: Never burn bridges
“Never burn bridges. Today’s junior jerk, tomorrow’s senior partner.” —Sigourney Weaver.
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Nathan Fillion: Costs nothing
“It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.” —Nathan Fillion.
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Warren Buffett: Really wonderful businesses
“A really wonderful business is very well protected against the vicissitudes of the economy and competition over time. And I’m talking about businesses that are resistant to effective competition. Three of those will be better than 100 average businesses. And they’ll be safer. There’s less risk in owning three, easy-to-identify, wonderful businesses than in owning…
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Karen McDougal: Evidence
“Let me just say this, if you’re in a loving relationship, do you try and collect evidence?” —Karen McDougal.
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Wayne Huizenga: Develop a sincere relationship
“I don’t want to be just a voice on the phone. I have to get to know these guys face-to-face and develop a sincere relationship. That way, if we run into problems in a deal, it doesn’t get adversarial. We trust each other and have the confidence we can work things out.” —Wayne Huizenga.
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Alex Faickney Osborn: Creativity
“Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.” —Alex Faickney Osborn.
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Harry Houdini: The mind believes
“What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.” —Harry Houdini.
