Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Warren Buffett: Inflation
“Our outlook for inflation is always the same. We feel there’s a big bias toward inflation – – – both in the U.S. and around the world. But our objective is not to profit from it as much as it is to avoid disaster. Our outlook leads to our buying businesses with the same characteristics…
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Simon Sinek: Planners and dreamers
“In weak companies the dreamers are expected to serve the planners. In great companies the planners feel inspired to serve the dreamers.” —Simon Sinek.
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Music
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. ” —Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Groucho Marx: Idiotic
“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.” —Groucho Marx .
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Scott Eastwood: Entertainment gossip
“[Some outlets] shouldn’t even call themselves news providers; they’re just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking.” —Scott Eastwood.
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Allison Janney: Servant of two masters
“It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.” —Allison Janney.
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St. Joseph: Born to love
“We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.” —Saint Joseph.
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Fred Rogers: My heroes
‘We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.’ —Fred Rogers, television host, songwriter, and author (20 Mar 1928-2003).
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Shawn Mendes: Always trying to impress someone
“Live like you’re always trying to impress someone.” —Shawn Mendes.
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Wendy Williams: Motto
“When you’re an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, ‘I’ll show ’em. I will show you.’” —Wendy Williams.
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Aubrey O’Day: Boxes and corners
“I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.” —Aubrey O’Day.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: Very fine line
“What strikes me is that there’s a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.” —Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Warren Buffett: The difference
“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” — Warren Buffett.
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Julia Michaels: Typecast and stereotype
“It’s ingrained in people’s minds that it’s a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.” —Julia Michaels.
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Keith Urban: Temptations all around
“From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.” —Keith Urban.
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Selena Gomez: Never look back
“Never look back. If Cinderella had looked back and picked up the shoe she would have never found her prince.” —Selena Gomez.
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Michelle Williams: Concentric circles
“I don’t believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles – concentric circles that connect.” —Michelle Williams.
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Steve Krug: Usability
“Usability is about people and how they understand and use things, not about technology.” —Steve Krug.
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Mohammed Bin Salman: Contradictions
“(Women and men) are all human beings and there is no difference… We have extremists who forbid mixing between the two sexes and are unable to differentiate between a man and a woman alone together and being together in the workplace. Many of those ideas contradict the way of life during the time of the…
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Cynthia Nixon: Same privileges and same responsibilities
“When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be…
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Raj Thackeray: Language and culture
“Whoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of the state and its language.” —Raj Thackeray.
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Simon Sinek: Bossing and leading
“A boss tells people what they can do to achieve a goal. A leader asks people what they can do to advance a vision.” —Simon Sinek.
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Henrik Ibsen: Take the helm
“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.” —Henrik Ibsen.
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Steve Jobs: Focusing
‘The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying “Yes.” No. Focusing is about saying “No.” And when you say “No,” you piss off people.’ —Steve Jobs.
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Warren Buffett: Spring will be over
“So it’s a terrible mistake to look at what’s going on in the economy today and then decide whether to buy or sell stocks based on it. You should decide whether to buy or sell stocks based on how much you’re getting for your money, long-term value you’re getting for your money at any given…
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Renée Zellweger: Importance of kindness
“I think we underestimate the importance of kindness sometimes. We understand the power of just a little tiny bit of kindness. It could be the catalyst for something so important. Sometimes just a tiny little gesture or an acknowledgment can make all the difference in turning somebody’s life around. I think it has a trickle…
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Paul Krugman: Manufacturing
“There are clearly a lot of things that India could be manufacturing. That is why India probably needs to move more into manufacturing. Service export, not necessarily the service sector as a whole, disproportionately employs highly educated, high skilled people. You need to create jobs for hundreds of millions of people who are going to…
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Jim Carrey: In the moment
“If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.” —Jim Carrey.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Day after day
“I don’t think you can expect someone to be personally attacked day after day, minute by minute, and sit back.” —Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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Stephen Hawking: Black holes
“Black holes aren’t as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. Things can get out of a black hole, both on the outside, and possibly to another universe. So if you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.” —Stephen…
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APJ Abdul Kalam: Synthetic happiness
“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.” —APJ Abdul Kalam.
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Simon Sinek: Good leadership
“Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Vladimir Putin: Social responsibility
“We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has…
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Keeley Hawes: Icons
“There’s always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way.” —Keeley Hawes.
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Rob Kardashian: Dress socks
“I feel like dress socks differentiate you in a different way – especially men in suits who just have the traditional business suit. The dress sock is the way to change it up in your mind and I like wearing my pants up higher so you see them.” —Rob Kardashian.
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Bruce Willis: Violence
“Violence – look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who’s kidding who?” —Bruce Willis.
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E O’Brien: Ferociously tenacious
“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.” —E. O’brien.
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Ben Affleck: No matter how much you change
“No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.” —Ben Affleck.
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Charlie Hunnam: No matter how difficult it is
“Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.” —Charlie Hunnam.
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Asa Hilliard: Child geniuses
“I have never encountered any children in any group who are not geniuses. There is no mystery on how to teach them. The first thing you do is treat them like human beings and the second thing you do is love them.” —Asa Hilliard.
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Dr. John Lund: Communicate
“Don’t communicate to be understood; rather, communicate so as not to be misunderstood.” —Dr. John Lund.
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Emma Bunton: Keep a friendship
“I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.” —Emma Bunton.
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Kim Wilde: Give in to the night
“In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I’m all alone / I haven’t the strength to fight / That’s when my tears give…
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Karlie Kloss: Coding
“I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it’s important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.” —Karlie Kloss.
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John Updike: Writers
“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.” —John Updike.
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Sir John Pentland Mahaffy: In Ireland
“In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.” —Sir John Pentland Mahaffy.
