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Warren Buffett: When they’re scared, they’re scared
“People get smarter but they don’t get wiser. They don’t get more emotionally stable. All the conditions for extreme overvaluation or undervaluation absolutely exist, the way they did 50 years ago. You can teach all you want to the people, you can tell them to read Ben Graham’s book, you can send them to graduate…
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Michael Griffin: Complex systems
“Complex systems usually come to grief, when they do, not because they fail to accomplish their nominal purpose. Complex systems typically fail because of the unintended consequences of their design … I like to think of system engineering as being fundamentally concerned with minimizing, in a complex artifact, unintended interactions between elements desired to be…
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Ma Rainey: Life’s way of talking
“They hear it come out, but they don’t know how it got there. They don’t understand that’s Life’s way of talking. You don’t sing to feel better. You sing ’cause that’s a way of understanding life.” —Ma Rainey.
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Simon Sinek: Managers and results
“Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Linus Pauling: Have lots of ideas
“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” —Linus Pauling.
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Dr. Amina Aitsi-Selmi: Toxic work cultures
“People don’t leave jobs, they leave toxic work cultures.” — Dr. Amina Aitsi-Selmi.
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Simon Sinek: Problems
“Problems only exist for those who don’t look for solutions.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Three characters
“In every romance there must be the three characters: there must be the Princess, who is a thing to be loved; there must be the Dragon, who is a thing to be fought; and there must be St. George, who is a thing that both loves and fights.” —G. K. Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Doctrines
“Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God.” —C S Lewis.
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Robert Penn Warren: Light by which we may see
“In the end, the poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see—and what we see is life.” —Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (24 Apr 1905-1989).
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Warren Buffett: Inflation
“Inflation destroys value, but it destroys it very unequally. The best business to have during inflation is one that retains its earning power in real dollars without commensurate investment to, in effect, fund the inflation-produced nominal growth. The worst kind of business is where you have to keep putting more and more money into a…
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Sue Grafton: Ghosts
“Ghosts don’t haunt us. That’s not how it works. They’re present among us because we won’t let go of them.” —Sue Grafton.
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Marcus Aurelius: Meditate
“Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe. For in a sense, all things are mutually woven together and therefore have an affinity for each other—for one thing follows after another according to their tension of movement, their sympathetic stirrings, and the unity of all substance.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Simon Sinek: Greatness
“Greatness comes when someone with the ability to imagine partners with someone with the ability to see.” —Simon Sinek.
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Michael Moore: Jesus at the New York Stock Exchange
“Somehow, I don’t think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.” —Michael Moore, filmmaker and author (b. 23 Apr 1954).
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Winnie the Pooh: Doing nothing
“Doing nothing often leads to the very best something.” –Winnie the Pooh.
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James Buchanan: Noise of democracy
“I like the noise of democracy.” —James Buchanan.
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Louise Eldrich: Life will break you
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.…
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Simon Sinek: Going to the moon
“Great leaders do not define their vision by what it is not. Great leaders define their vision by what it is. They tell us where we are going. Kennedy didn’t tell us we’re not going to stay on the earth. He told us we’re going to the moon.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Preach the Resurrection
“To preach Christianity meant (to the Apostles) primarily to preach the Resurrection…The Resurrection is the central theme in every Christian sermon reported in the Acts. The Resurrection, and its consequences, were the gospel or good news which the Christians brought.” —C S Lewis.
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Jan de Hartog: Common among the young
“Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed.” —Jan de Hartog, playwright and novelist (22 Apr 1914-2002).
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Vladmir Lenin: 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 in parliament.” —Vladmir Lenin.
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Anthony Quinn: Country instead
“I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.” —Anthony Quinn.
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Leonard Ravenhill: Worth Christ dying for?
“Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?” —Leonard Ravenhill.
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Andrew Solomon: Vitality
“The opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.” —Andrew Solomon.
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Catherine the Great: Great wind
“A great wind is blowing and that either gives you imagination…or a headache.” —Catherine the Great.
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Warren Buffett: Own abilities
“The best investment you can have, for most people, is in your own abilities.” –Warren Buffett.
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Simon Sinek: Excitement and fulfilment
“Excitement comes from the achievement. Fulfillment comes from the journey that gets us there.” —Simon Sinek.
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Fred Brooks: Adding manpower
“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” —Fred Brooks, computer scientist.
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Simon Sinek: Intelligence and creativity
“Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Perception
“The truth of most truths is that they are perception and not, in fact, true.” —Simon Sinek.
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Clarence Darrow: Tragedy of teaching children not to doubt
“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.” —Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (18 Apr 1857-1938).
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Charlie Munger: Blood brother of evil
“The history of much of which we don’t like in modern corporate capitalism comes from an unreasonable expectation, communicated from headquarters, that [corporate] earnings have to go up with no volatility and great regularity. That kind of an expectation from headquarters is not just the kissing cousin of evil. It’s the blood brother of evil.…
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Warren Buffett: Lot of bad things
“Businesses do not meet expectations quarter after quarter and year after year. It just isn’t in the nature of running businesses. And, in our view, people that predict precisely what the future will be are either kidding investors, or they’re kidding themselves, or they’re kidding both. Charlie and I have been around the culture, sometimes…
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Dr. Kaye Remington: First principles
“Understanding First Principles is the basis of all understanding.” – Dr. Kaye Remington.
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Christopher Dawson: Fundamental error of the modern hedonist
“It is the fundamental error of the modern hedonist to believe that man can abandon moral effort, throw off every repression and spiritual discipline, and yet preserve all the achievements of culture.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Simon Sinek: Relationships
“We cannot control a relationship. We can only contribute to a relationship. All relationships, business or personal, are an opportunity to serve another human being.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alexandra Adornetto: Built-in entertainment system
“Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven’t pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.” —Alexandra Adornetto.
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Adam McKay: Respect and dignity
“Have you noticed the difference between dignity and respect is a big one? People that fly off the handle and get angry too much always talk about, ‘I’m not being respected.’ But respect is something you can’t control, right? Dignity is inside you, dignity is yours.” —Adam McKay.
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John C Maxwell: Need to change
“Leaders never outgrow the need to change.” – John C. Maxwell.
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Isak Dinesen: Cure for anything
“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.” -Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (17 Apr 1885-1962).
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Simon Sinek: More than desire to win
“To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.” —Simon Sinek.
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John C Maxwell: Where your character stops
“Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.” ― John C. Maxwell.
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Peter Ustinov: One day of modern warfare
“Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only ONE day, of modern warfare? ” —Peter Ustinov, actor, writer, and director (16 Apr 1921-2004).
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Cory House: Code is like humor
“Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.” – Cory House.
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E F L Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax: True merit
“True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.” —E F L Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax.
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Joseph Sobran: New laws
“Politicians always promise to make even more new laws, as if this were some sort of achievement. It rarely occurs to them to pare down the fantastic body of laws already on the books. In their minds, there is no such thing as enough.” —Joseph Sobran.
