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Warren Buffett: Sedated rationality
“The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.” —Warren Buffett.
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Simon Sinek: Fulfillment
“Bad days don’t make it a bad job. Good days don’t make it a good job. Like a relationship, it’s the general feeling we get when we think about our work—not the excitement or stress on any particular day—that defines our fulfillment.” —Simon Sinek.
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower: All leaders
“All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.” —Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
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Michel de Montaigne: Unceasingly
“We, and our judgment, and all mortal things go on flowing and rolling unceasingly. Thus nothing certain can be established about one thing by another, both the judging and the judged being in continual change and motion.” —Michel de Montaigne.
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Albert Camus: Freedom
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” – Albert Camus.
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Richard Bookstaber: World cannot be solved
“It is a deeply held conviction within economics that our world can be reduced to models that are founded on the solid ground of axioms, plumbed by deductive logic into rigorous, universal mathematical structures. Economists think they have things figured out, but our economic behavior is so complex, our interactions are so profound that there…
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Heroic world
“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Gillian Anderson: Action, perseverance and facing your fears
“Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance and facing your fears.” —Gillian Anderson,actress.
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Akshaye Khanna: Insecurity
“Why is the feeling of insecurity so prevalent in this field? Because the actor is such a dependent person on other people. If I am a painter, poet, composer, I am not really dependent on others. While the profession of acting or being an actor is leaving your entire career open to people and the…
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Franz Kafka: Back the world
“In the fight between you and the world, back the world.” —Franz Kafka.
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Tom Cruise: Talk
“Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.” —Tom Cruise.
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Tony Robbins: To effectively communicate
“To effectively communicate, we must realise that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” —Tony Robbins.
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Ellen Ullman: Interruptions
“Programmers don’t talk because they must not be interrupted… To synchronize with other people (or their representation in telephones, buzzers and doorbells) can only mean interrupting the thought train. Interruptions mean certain bugs. You must not get off the train. ” —Ellen Ullman.
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Herman Hesse: Words
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.” —Herman Hesse.
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Herman Hesse: Sinister to the rest
“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” —Herman Hesse.
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Herman Hesse: Not our purpose
“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” —Herman Hesse.
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Pierre Cardin: Fashion now
“We undress men and women, we don’t dress them any more.” —Pierre Cardin.
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Tom Schulman: Upon my desk
“I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.” —Tom Schulman,screenwriter.
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Princess Diana: Fulfilling job
“People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.” —Princess Diana.
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Jeff Bezos: Horizons
“If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon,…
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Mike Tyson: When Jesus comes back
“When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.” —Mike Tyson.
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Northcote Parkinson: Delay
“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.” —C Northcote Parkinson.
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John Dewey: Education
“Education … is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.” —John Dewey, psychologist and educational reformer.
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Jean Sibelius: Musicians
“[Musicians] talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art.” —Jean Sibelius, explaining why he rarely invited musicians to his home.
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John F Kennedy: When the sun is shining
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” —John F Kennedy.
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Henry Fielding: Reason
“Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.” —Henry Fielding, author (21 Apr 1707-1754).
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Earning a living
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Steve Case: Killer app
“The killer app is people.” —Steve Case on the NPR podcast How I Built This, 4/3/2017.
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Charlie Munger: Wise man
“Throughout his life, a wise man engages in practice of all his useful, rarely used skills, many of them outside his discipline, as a sort of duty to his better self. If he reduces the number of skills he practices and, therefore, the number of skills he retains, he will naturally drift into error from…
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Daniel Stillman: Conversation
“We’ve been conversing for thousands of years, and we’ve gotten pretty good at it. But being good at something doesn’t mean you know how to teach someone else how.”—Daniel Stillman re his Conversation Factory podcast featuring Nandini Stocker.
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Ross Perot: Which?
“Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?” —Ross Perot.
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Helen Keller: Optimism
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —Helen Keller.
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Isabelle Adjani: Not in three days
“But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.” —Isabelle Adjani.
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Clarence Darrow: Objector and rebel
“The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.” —Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (18 Apr 1857-1938) .
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Pearl S Buck: Feelings
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.” —Pearl S Buck.
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Brian Tracy: No limitations
“There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.” —Brian Tracy,writer and motivational speaker.
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George Orwell: Invariably
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” —George Orwell.
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Kangana Ranaut: Social media
“I am not online for a reason. There are always two sides to a coin. There are times when you enjoy the pampering, the ‘likes’ you get. But then you have to take the negative remarks in your stride as well.” —Kangana Ranaut.
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George Michael: Total crap
“The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.” —George Michael.
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Thornton Wilder: Breaking in, breaking out
“Everybody’s talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.” —Thornton Wilder, writer (17 Apr 1897-1975) .
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Mindy Kaling: Earnestness
“People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.” —Mindy Kaling.
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Earl Warren: Social progress or socialism?
“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.” —Earl Warren, jurist (1891-1974) .
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David Ogilvy: Set exorbitant standards
“Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don’t live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.” —David Ogilvy.
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Jerry Seinfeld: People on dates
“People on dates shouldn’t even be allowed out in public.” —Jerry Seinfeld.
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Benjamin Graham: Past behaviour
“Unfortunately in this kind of work, where you are trying to determine relationships based upon past behavior, the almost invariable experience is that by the time you have had a long enough period to give you sufficient confidence in your form of measurement, just then new conditions supersede and the measurement is no longer dependable…
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Simon Sinek: Words and action
“Words may inspire but only action creates change.” —Simon Sinek.
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Meryl Streep: Motherhood
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” —Meryl Streep.
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Richard Branson: Following rules
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules, you learn by doing and by falling over.” —Richard Branson,entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist.
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Simon Sinek: Bigger and better
“Bigger does not mean better. But better is how we get bigger.” —Simon Sinek.
