“When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I’ll go: You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I’m so glad I didn’t. Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.”
—Chris Isaak.
“Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.”
—Simon Sinek.
“A strategic buyer is some guy that pays too much. And he wants to justify it, so he says it’s strategic. I have never understood being a strategic buyer. Every time somebody calls me up and says, ‘We think, maybe, you’re the logical strategic buyer for that,’ I hang up faster than Charlie would…. The idea that we’re going to find a business to buy from some guy who, from the moment he bought it a few years ago, has been thinking, ‘How do I get out of this thing?’ ‘What do I do to have…those figures for a couple years look a certain way so that I can get the maximum amount in a couple years?’ We’re just not going to make any attractive buys there. We won’t trust the figures. What we like is a business where the guy before was running with the idea of running it a hundred years, and taking care of the business in every way possible and was not contemplating sale, but, for one reason or another, finally needs to monetize the company. ” –Warren Buffett.
‘In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics”. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.’
—George Orwell, novelist (25 Jun 1903-1950).
“The most popular labor-saving device is still money.”
—Phyllis George.
“All men — whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans — have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.”
—Norman Cousins, author, editor, journalist and professor (24 Jun 1915-1990).
“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
—Brooks Adams.
