Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Warren Buffett: Something being scorned
“It’s better to pay attention to something that is being scorned than something that’s being championed.” —Warren Buffett.
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Cicero: Avarice
“Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.” —Cicero.
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Jennifer Wright: Abortion and rape
“When people say abortion is only okay in cases of rape, they’re telling women they only get bodily autonomy if they’ve already been punished sufficiently.” —Jennifer Wright.
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G K Chesterton: Pornography
“Pornography is not a thing to be argued about with one’s intellect, but to be stamped on with one’s heel.” —G K Chesterton.
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Andy Hunt: Perfect software
“No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It’s unlikely that you’ll be the first.” – Andy Hunt.
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Simon Sinek: Fighting for and against
“Fight against something and we focus on the thing we hate. Fight for something and we focus on the thing we love.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Financial institutions
“If you’re analyzing something like WD-40, or See’s Candy, or our brick business, or whatever…they may have good or bad prospects but you’re not likely to be fooling yourself much about what’s going on currently. But with financial institutions, it’s much tougher. Then you throw in derivatives on top of it, and…no one probably knows…
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Charlie Munger: Search expenses
“Now the search expenses that brought us Ajit Jain, now there was an investment that really paid a dividend. I can think of no higher return investment that we’ve ever made that was better than that one. And I think that’s a good life lesson. In other words, getting the right people into your system…
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Struggles become strengths
“The struggles we overcome as children become our strengths as adults.” —Simon Sinek.
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James Elroy Flecker: Thy dawn
“Thy dawn, O Master of the World, thy dawn; For thee the sunlight creeps across the lawn, For thee the ships are drawn down to the waves, For thee the markets throng with myriad slaves, For thee the hammer on the anvil rings, For thee the poet of beguilement sings.” —James Elroy Flecker, The Story…
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Rabindranath Tagore: New melodies
“When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.” —Rabindranath Tagore.
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Epicetus: For what would you sell these things?
“Your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things?” —Epicetus.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Inspiration
“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.” —Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Simon Sinek: Pushing for better
“It’s better to feel uncomfortable pushing for better than feel uncomfortable settling for less.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sigmund Freud: Not from a single aspiration
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.” —Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May 1856-1939).
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George Clooney: Hearing yourself speak
“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” —George Clooney.
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Francisco Varla: No whole system
“There is no whole system within interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without its environment.” — Francisco Varla.
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Karl Marx: Once every few years
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” —Karl Marx.
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Ana Gasteyer: Parody
“I’d like to say that parody is a celebration of a person’s specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.” —Ana Gasteyer.
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Simon Sinek: Because of work
“If we push people away because of work, then when we’re finally free there will be no friends left…only plenty of time for more work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Look at the men around him
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”—Niccolo Machiavelli, political philosopher and author.
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Jerome K Jerome: Idleness must be stolen
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.” —Jerome K. Jerome, humorist and playwright.
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Marcus Aurelius: My task is to be good
“No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, ‘No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.’ ” —Marcus Aurelius. —
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Niccolo Machiavelli: What you really are
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” —Niccolo Machiavelli.
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Simon Sinek: Reinforce, not define
“Products should be used to reinforce, not define, who a company is.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Simplicity itself
“We haven’t succeeded because we had great complicated systems or some magic formulas we apply or anything. We’ve succeeded because we have simplicity itself. We take people that know how to play their game very well, and we let them play the game. And it’s just worked in one field after another. And every now…
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Dr. Benjamin Spock: In automobile terms
“In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.” —Dr. Benjamin Spock.
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Joseph Heller: Enemy
“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.” —Joseph Heller, novelist (1 May 1923-1999).
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Warren Buffett: Macro forecast of stocks
“Charlie and I spend no time thinking or talking about what the stock market is going to do, because we don’t know. We do know, sometimes, that we’re getting very good value for our money when we buy some stocks or some bonds. But we are not operating on the basis of any kind of…
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Joanna Lumley: Shrapnel
“To be a judge you don’t have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.” —Joanna Lumley.
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Simon Sinek: We don’t know
“When we say what we don’t know, it increases the likelihood that someone who does know will offer to help.” —Simon Sinek.
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Annie Dillard: Spend the afternoon
“Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.” —Annie Dillard.
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Jim Rohn: Investment in your future
“My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.” — Jim Rohn.
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Aaron Swartz: Curiosity
“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity.” – Aaron Swartz.
