Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Tom Petty: Five percent of the sound
“I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you’re only getting five percent of the sound that’s there. But when you hear the entire thing… I think it would save the music business. It’s such a drastic change.” —-Tom Petty.
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Sonam Kapoor: Sanitary napkins
“Sanitary napkins are packed like bombs; they are wrapped inside newspapers in black packets. Mothers don’t broach the subject, schools don’t instruct their girls about it. Grandmothers forbade us from entering temples on certain days of the month.” —Sonam Kapoor.
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John Donne: No man is an island
“No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were;…
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Margaret Thatcher: Economists travel on infrastructure
“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.” —Margaret Thatcher.
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Marilyn French: Pebbles, not mountains
“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.” —Marilyn French.
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Tom Petty: They can’t afford the music
“It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.” —Tom Petty.
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John Hurt: Honesty to the nth degree
“I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you’ve lost your deposit. It’s best if you don’t say it.” —John Hurt.
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Lord Byron: Love and friendship
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. —Lord Byron.
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Unknown: Afraid
“We are always afraid to ask because we aren’t afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection.” —Unknown.
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Paul Bocuse: New recipe
“If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.” —Paul Bocuse.
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Paulo Coelho: Patience
“Patience is not about waiting, but how we act when things take longer than we expect.” — Paulo Coelho.
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Robert J Shiller: Finance
“Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.” —Robert J. Shiller.
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Publilius Syrus: Opportunity lost
“The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.” —Publilius Syrus.
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Christian Dior: Sure instincts
“Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.” —Christian Dior.
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Benny Hill: Cut the odds
“The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.” —Benny Hill.
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Tama J Kieves: Limitations
“We live in a world that worships limitations” ― Tama J. Kieves, This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love.
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Blythe Masters: Blockchain technology
“Blockchain technology represents a generational opportunity to mutualize database infrastructure across entities within financial services. What that translates into is an enormous cost-saving, risk-reducing, and capital-enhancing opportunity.” —Blythe Masters.
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Hedy Lamarr: Just think of the job
“I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.” —Hedy Lamarr.
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Federico Fellini: Hype
“Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.” —Federico Fellini.
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Tama J Kieves: Closed door
“I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It’s really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.”…
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David Marno: Attention and distraction
“It is reasonable to ask whether attention and distraction are simply two morally and culturally charged terms referring to what in reality is the same behaviour. We label this behaviour distraction when we disapprove of its objects and objectives; and we call it attention when we approve of them.” —David Marno.
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Warren Buffett: Growth and value
“..business growth, per se, tells us little about value. It’s true that growth often has a positive impact on value, sometimes one of spectacular proportions. But such an effect is far from certain…. Growth benefits investors only when the business in point can invest at incremental returns that are enticing – in other words, only…
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Tyler Oakley: No person
“No person, no matter how important society deems their relationship to you, has the right to denounce you for who you are.” —Tyler Oakley.
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Edgar Allan Poe: Self-confidence
“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.” —Edgar Allan Poe.
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Glorianne Swenson: Resolutions
“Resolutions” From Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Resolution ~Glorianne Swenson This year I will burn a candle and bask in the fragrance of spiced apple. I will take a nap between fresh sheets and not set the alarm. I will laugh aloud even though there is no one else to hear me. I will…
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Howard Marks: Favourite quote
“My favorite quote comes from a British author named Christopher Morley, ‘There’s only one success: to be able to live your life your way.’ I believe you shouldn’t let society determine what your way is, and you shouldn’t let money determine what your way is.” — Howard Marks.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Beauty of the good
“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Guiseppe Gioachino Belli: Tower of Babel
“‘We’d like to touch the stars,’ they cried, and, after, ‘We’ve got to touch the stars. But how?’ An able-brained ******* told them: ‘Build the Tower of Babel. Start now, get moving. Dig holes, sink a shaft. A-rise, arouse raise rafter after rafter, Get bricks, sand, limestone,scaffolding and cable; I’m clerk of works, fetch me…
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Warren Buffett: Book value versus intrinsic business value
“Book value is an accounting concept, recording the accumulated financial input from both contributed capital and retained earnings. Intrinsic business value is an economic concept, estimating future cash output discounted to present value. Book value tells you what has been put in; intrinsic business value estimates what can be taken out.” —- Warren Buffett.
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Anne Wilson Schaef: Security
Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe. – Anne Wilson Schaef.
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John Bogle: Imaging
“If you have trouble imaging a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks.” – John Bogle.
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Takeshi Kitano: Humour and violence
“Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.” —Takeshi Kitano.
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Kevin Costner: Willingness
“If you’re willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you’re sorry? You need to, even when you think you’re in the right.” —Kevin Costner.
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Jonas Salk: Greatest reward
“The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.” —Jonas Salk, medical researcher.
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Michelle Obama: Proud American tradition
“If you or your parents are immigrants, know that you are part of a proud American tradition — the infusion of new cultures, talents and ideas, generation after generation, that has made us the greatest country on earth.” —Michelle Obama, lawyer, First Lady of the US (b. 17 Jan 1964) .
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Mohnish Pabrai: Fish where the fish are
“Charlie Munger says that he wants to shoot fish in a barrel, but only after all the water has been let out…. When I look at the people that I would normally think of as very good investors, basically, those folks are really good investors but they aren’t fishing where the fish are. And it…
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Al Capone: What you are going to remember about me
“Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.” —Al Capone.
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Steve Maraboli: Re-directed
“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.” —Steve Maraboli.
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Daniel Kahneman: A lot simpler and more certain world
“My perspective…is that we’re really not surprised nearly often enough, because one of the things that really happens, as soon as an event occurs, we have a story. That’s automatic, that System 1 generates stories. It looks for causes, it looks for stories, and it generates its tentative stories that, if endorsed by System 2,…
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Dolores O’Riordan: Unborn, human
“The evidence I see tells me the unborn is a human being.” —Dolores O’Riordan.
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Debbie Allen: Clothes back in those days
“The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman’s body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.” —Debbie Allen.
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Carl Karcher: Ones buying your product
“Whenever you’re successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.” —Carl Karcher.
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Sade Adu: Whole purpose of music
“Once a song’s out there, it’s no longer mine. And that’s the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.” —Sade Adu.
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Nayyirah Waheed: You not wanting me
“You not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you” ― Nayyirah Waheed.
