Brendan Morgan

3 Reasons to "Sell" in Life

Last week, investor Bill Ackman hosted a fireside chat conversation in Omaha in front of a standing room only crowd of 500+ investors.

Ackman was joined onstage by Ryan Israel, his partner and Chief Investment Officer.

During the conversation, an audience member asked Israel a deceptively simple question:

"How do you know wh

{Psalm 30}

When God’s children prosper one way, they are generally tried another, for few of us can bear unmingled prosperity. Even the joys of hope need to be mixed with the pains of experience, and the more surely so when comfort breeds carnal security and self-confidence.
- Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Volume One (Part Two), pg 43


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{Psalm 28}

“It is said,” said Rutherford, speaking of the Saviour’s delay in responding to the request of the Syrophenician woman, “ ‘he answered not a word,’ but it is not said, he heard not a word. These two differ much. Christ often heareth when he doth not answer—his not answering is an answer, and speaks thus—‘pray on, go on and cry, for t

{Psalm 28}

“Be not silent to me.” Let us next observe what the heart desires from God. It is that he would speak. “Be not silent to me.” Under these circumstances, when we make our prayer, we desire that God would let us know that he hears us, and that he would appear for us, and that he would say, he is our Father. And what do we desire God to say?

We won't be held accountable for how much we have done, but for how much we have done of what He has asked us to do.
- Wayne Cordeiro, Leading On Empty, pg 79


comment - Cordeiro's point is that a fair amount of what we have done is extraneous. While not necessarily bad, it is fluff. One of the keys to being effective over the longterm is to focus in