Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Charlie Munger: Seamless web of trust
“Our model is a seamless web of trust that’s deserved on both sides. That’s what we’re aiming for. The Hollywood model, where everyone has a contract, and no trust is deserved on either side, is not what we want at all.” ––Charlie Munger.
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Aidan Quinn: Fires of everyday life
“Really, most of us just focus on whats in front of us. Were too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.” —Aidan Quinn.
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Christopher Dawson: Protestantism, Liberalism and Communism
“Protestantism, Liberalism, and Communism are three successive stages by which our civilization has passed from Catholicism to complete secularism. The first eliminated the Church, the second eliminated Christianity, and the third eliminates the human soul.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Michael Eisner: Individual achievers
“Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who’s either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric. “ —Michael Eisner.
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Ring Lardner: Family
“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.” —Ring Lardner.
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G K Chesterton: Good intentions
“Only Calvinists can really believe that hell is paved with good intentions. That is exactly the one thing it cannot be paved with.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Cosmopolitans
‘The question is not so much “Are there foreigners in my country?” but “Are there cosmopolitans in my country, cosmopolitans who act in complete indifference to my country, and all other countries?”‘ —G K Chesterton.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Avert the standard assumption
“The first, and hardest, step to wisdom: avert the standard assumption that people know what they want.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Penn Jillette: Religion and science
“If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a…
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Jack Welch: Moral obligation
“If you are a leader and you are a manager, shame on you if people don’t know where they stand. You have a moral obligation leading people’s lives, talking about their future and … telling them where they stand.” —Jack Welch.
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Julia Cameron: True nature
“When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we’ve planted…
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Julia Cameron: Spirituality
“Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we’re guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don’t necessarily think of it spiritual…
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Ott Hurrle: Four brothers
“When you have four brothers, you learn how to fight, you learn how to lose, and you learn how to fight again.” —Ott Hurrle.
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Deborah Meaden: Workplace bullying
“Bullying never works ( never has) in the Workplace. Good people leave,nervous people stop contributing, the rest get their own back… however long that takes.” —Deborah Meaden.
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William Godwin: Truth
“If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.” —William Godwin.
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Dan Rockwell: Entitlement
“Better to think you are average and work hard than to think you’re above average and feel entitled. Entitlement is the end of development.” —Dan Rockwell
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Bill Bellichick: Strength of the wolf
“There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.” –– Bill Belichick.
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Joel Osteen: Reach your destiny
“You can’t be a people pleaser and reach your potential. People will try to squeeze you into what they’re used to, into what they think. Take advice, listen to counsel, but you may have to disappoint a few people to reach your destiny.” —Joel Osteen.
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Sir John Murray: Hope and courage
“Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.” —Sir John Murray.
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Seneca: Religion
“Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” —Seneca.
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Carl Schurz: Loyalty to resist, treason to submit
“We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.” —Carl Schurz.
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Pope Leo XIII: Nature to man
“It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.” —Pope Leo XIII.
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Dan Rockwell: Correct an arrogant manager
“Correct an arrogant manager and you’ll likely be insulted for your trouble. Weak, arrogant leaders feel offended when you disagree with them. Strong, humble leaders explore dissent.” —Dan Rockwell.
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G K Chesterton: Humor
“Humor is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game. It is meant to remind us human beings that we have things about us as ungainly and ludicrous as the nose of the elephant or the neck of the…
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.” —Simon Sinek.
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Michel De Montaigne: Noise and command
“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.” —Michel De Montaigne.
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Howard Marks: Negatives accumulate
“One of the most notable behavioral traits among investors is their tendency to overlook negatives or understate their significance for a while, and then eventually to capitulate and overreact to them on the downside. I attribute a lot of this to psychological failings and the rest to the inability to appreciate the true significance of…
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Ralph Nader: Solar energy
“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.” —Ralph Nader.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Hostages to prejudice
“If people are informed they will do the right thing. Its when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.” —Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
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Victor Hugo: Great government
“Knowing exactly how much of the future can be introduced into the present is the secret of great government.” —-Victor Hugo.
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Sharon Van Etten: Negative energy
“I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it’s either inside or out. I mean, it’s either get an ulcer or have a fight.” —Sharon Van Etten.
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John Leonard: Memory of a small boldness
“In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.” —John Leonard.
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Meher Baba: What helping others can do
“No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.” —Meher Baba.
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Samuel Lover: Scratching of a pen
“When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.” —-Samuel Lover.
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Clayton Christensen: Immediate gratification
“If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you’ll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. If you look at personal lives through that lens, you’ll see the same stunning and sobering pattern: people allocating fewer and fewer resources to the things they would have once said mattered most.”…
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Bo Schembechler: Not making a decision
“Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there’s no need to fret about it. If it fails, you’ll know what to do next time.” – Bo Schembechler.
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Steve Jobs: Already naked
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. “ —Steve Jobs.
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John Sandford: Nice piece of writing
“Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you’ll find it is a very nice piece of writing.” —John Sandford.
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Valery Legasov: What is the cost of lies?
“To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for truth, we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there, whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants. It…
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Tim Zonca: Plumbing
“If your goal is to grow your business by delivering an application or service, dealing with the plumbing of an application is not what your users want to pay for.” —-Tim Zonca.
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Seth Klarman: Conservatism
“Conservatism may cause investors to refrain from making some investments that in hindsight would have been successful, but it will also prevent some sizable losses that would ensue from adopting less conservative business valuations.” —Seth Klarman
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W H Auden: What all schoolchildren learn
“I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return.” —W.H. Auden.
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David Foster Wallace: Familiarity
“It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most familiarity is meditated and delusive. “ —David Foster Wallace.
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Larry Tesler: Complexity
“You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you’ve reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.” —Larry Tesler.
