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We’re always talking about doing the thing…
…or thinking about doing the thing…
…but hardly ever doing the thing.
Do the thing.
Adapted from The Knowledge Project podcast, episode #220 regarding James Dyson
If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes.
Warren 95: A Collection of My Favorite Buffett-isms
Can also be applied to ideas - if you’re not willing to work on the idea for the next ten years, why work on it for ten minutes?
Quote by Warren Buffet
I know a lot of people have very strong and definite plans that they’ve worked out on all kinds of things, but we’re subject to a tremendous number of outside influences and the vast majority of them cannot be predicted. So my idea is to stay flexible.
-Henry Singleton
Don’t predict, position yourself for success no matter what
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... See moreIn my final year, I decided to take on the biggest issue of all for Yale’s men: the 268-year-old parietal rules that forbade women staying overnight in a dorm room. I was dating a woman at a local college, so for me, it was as much a personal as a community issue.
The conventional approach would have been to set up a meeting with a university admini
The power of thinking different and collective action.
Make a list of common objections, ask the crowd, present to your advantage
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Being wrong isn’t something to fear but rather something to expect.
-Shane Parrish
from Brain Food #629
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Lessons from Cornelius Vanderbilt - cutthroat, but some key ideas here
... See moreMost people see circumstances as fixed; high-agency people see them as variables. When Depression-era customers couldn’t afford shotguns, Rose didn’t complain about the economy; she created a rental program overnight. The line stretched around the block the next morning. High agency isn’t magical thinking; it’s the refusal to accept artificial cons
From lessons learned about Rose Blumkin; my bold