Wisdom “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford
Wisdom “What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years.” – Chris Dixon
Investing “Know when to sell. Ideally, the time to sell is…almost never. But there’re 3 instances where we might need to sell: 1) our analysis is wrong 2) prospects of business have deteriorated 3) There’s a better opportunity” – Thomas Chua (Twiiter post)
Inspiration “We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” – John Wheeler
Wisdom “To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.” – Marcus Aurelius
Inspiration “Pay attention to how readily people talk themselves out of things – and be wary of adopting the same narrative. People will often try to convince you their limiting beliefs should become your own. They do not. Find your own ceiling.” – James Clear
Investing “The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.” – Benjamin Graham
Wisdom “Inequality of outcome is inherent in a free economy, which tends to reward the most talented. Since talent is uneqally and arbitrarily distributed, free enterprise and its resulting inequality of outcome are unpalatable {to many}. Yet progress depends on the flourishing of the talented. That means that inequality is truly the midwife of progress.” – Marian L. Tupy
Inspiration “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, services was joy.” -Rabindranath Tagore
Wisdom “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
Investing “To repeat, while such an index-driven strategy may not be the best investment strategy ever devised, the number of investment strategies that are worse is infinite.”-John Bogle
Wisdom “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain
Inspiration “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” —Theodore Roosevelt
Investing “How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” – Robert G. Allen
Wisdom “Humor is what happens when we’re told the truth quicker and more directly than we’re used to.” – George Saunders