Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Howard Marks: Proceed carefully
“The workings of free capital markets require that in order to overcome investors’ innate aversion to risk, seemingly riskier investments must offer the possibility of higher returns providing ‘risk premiums.’ But when risk aversion is at cyclical lows, risk premiums needn’t be generous; people will invest anyway. Too many people trying to dine at the…
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Simon Sinek: Genius
“The genius at the top doesn’t make the team look good. A good team makes the person at the top look like a genius.” —Simon Sinek.
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Glen Campbell: Start the day early
“I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.” —Glen Campbell.
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Antonio Banderas: Not stupid
“I don’t want anything I don’t deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I’m not stupid.” —Antonio Banderas.
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Albert Einstein: Common sense
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.” —Albert Einstein.
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Simon Sinek: Movement
“A movement only exists when people are willing to move, inspired to follow in the direction a leader points.” —Simon Sinek.
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Whitney Houston: Be straight up with you
“You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can’t fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you’ve got to be straight up with you.” —Whitney Houston.
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Jeff Bezos: Stable in time
“I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the…
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Simon Sinek: Value of our lives
“The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Benjamin Hoff: What’s there
“‘A fish can’t whistle and neither can I.’ Coming from a wise mind, such a statement would mean, ‘I have certain limitations, and I know what they are.’ Such a mind would act accordingly. There’s nothing wrong with not being able to whistle, especially if you’re a fish. But there can be lots of things…
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Woodrow Wilson: Errand
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” —Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president.
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Simon Sinek: Accountability
“Accountability is hard. Blame is easy. One builds trust, the other destroys it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charlize Theron: Nothing you can do
“There’s only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn’t give you a chance there is nothing you can do.” —Charlize Theron.
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Peter L Bernstein: Survival
“In general, survival is the only road to riches. Let me say that again: Survival is the only road to riches.” –Financial historian, economist, and educator Peter L. Bernstein.
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Alexander Fleming: Lone worker
“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.” —Alexander Fleming.
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Bill Bradley: Apathy
“Apathy can’t be an excuse for inaction.” —Bill Bradley, basketball player and politician.
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Ed McGrath: Dreams and ambition
“Your dreams must have place for the less fortunate. Else it is only ambition.” —Ed McGrath.
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John Vianney: Salt
“We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased; if our faults are perceived, we are sad. I remark that in a great many people; if one says anything to them, it disturbs them, it annoys them. The saints…
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Neil Armstrong: Overconfidence
“Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.” – – – Neil Armstrong.
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Bion of Borysthenes: Adapt
“Therefore we should not try to alter circumstances but to adapt ourselves to them as they really are, just as sailors do. They don’t try to change the winds or the sea but ensure that they are always ready to adapt themselves to conditions. In a flat calm they use the oars; with a following…
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Cecilia Ahern: Most painful moment
“The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage.” —Cecelia Ahern.
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Martin Sheen: Civil disobedience
“I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.” —Martin Sheen.
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Daniel H Pink: Money as a motivator
“The best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table: Pay people enough so that they’re not thinking about money and they’re thinking about the work. Once you do that, it turns out there are three factors that the science shows lead to…
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Milton Glaser: Three responses
There are three responses to a piece of design—yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.”—Milton Glaser.
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Baltasar Gracian: Just as important
“It is just as important to have studied men, as to have studied books.” — Baltasar Gracian.
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Sam Shepard: Horrible emptiness
“The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.” —Sam Shepard.
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Jeanne Moreau: Love and age
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” —Jeanne Moreau.
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Herman Melville: Chosen vehicle
“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.” —Herman Melville.
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Knight First Amendment Institute: Unconstitutional
“We hope the courts look to this opinion as a road map in holding that it is unconstitutional for President [Donald] Trump to block his critics on Twitter.” —Knight First Amendment Institute, as quoted by Alphr.
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Dwight Eisenhower: Leadership
“By leadership, we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower,34th US president.
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J K Rowling: Failed by default
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” —J K Rowling.
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Harvey Spencer Lewis: I am
“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday — or some previous day.” —Harvey Spencer Lewis,WRITER.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Resistance
“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Oscar Wilde: Good advice
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.” —Oscar Wilde, Writer.
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Dr. Samuel Johnson: Woman’s preaching
“A woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.” —Dr. Samuel Johnson.
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Benjamin Graham: Prosperity and safety
“Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to ‘earning power’ and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.” —Benjamin Graham.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Civilization
“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Dag Hammarskjöld: Never
“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.” —Dag Hammarskjold.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Long
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Chris Hoffman: RDBMS
“In no universe is etched a generic replacement for an RDBMS. In some scenarios, sure you could use one instead of the other. But not most.” ___ Washington D.C. developer Chris Hoffman.
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Jackie Kennedy: Two kinds of women
“There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.” —Jackie Kennedy.
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Simon Sinek: Greatness
“Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alexandre Dumas: Nothing more galling
“There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.” —Alexandre Dumas.
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Bob Black: You are what you do
“You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.” —Bob Black, writer.
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Simon Sinek: Mature companies
“Mature companies fail because they forget WHY they were born.” —Simon Sinek.
