Quotes
by josh · updated 6mo ago
Quotes
by josh · updated 6mo ago
“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”
- Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes
josh added 7mo ago
"What is important now is to realize that alcohol does pick you up, but only from how far it kicked you down, never up to where you were before you started drinking"
from This Naked Mind by Annie Grace
josh added 7mo ago
"This is a key to all drug addiction—the drug creates the low and then deceives its victims into believing that, by ending the low, it is providing a high."
from "This Naked Mind: by Annie Grace
josh added 7mo ago
Talk doesn't cook rice
josh added 7mo ago
There is no possession more valuable than a sober sunrise, and any drunk who demands more out of life than that will probably not have it - James Lee Burke. Can’t remember which book of his it’s from.
josh added 8mo ago
“Somebody may beat me—but they’re going to have to bleed to do it.” from Shoe Dog.
josh added 9mo ago
"You might presume, then, that this means our broader appetite for minerals is diminishing. Not a bit of it. For it turns out oil and other fossil fuels have only ever represented a fraction of the total mass of resources we’re extracting from the earth. For every tonne of fossil fuels, we exploit 6 tonnes of other materials – mostly sand and stone
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The audience comes last. The audience doesn't know what they want. The audience only knows what's come before. - Rick Rubin
josh added 9mo ago
Deliberatness and curiosity will cure boredom in any task.
josh added 10mo ago
Business is two things: Product & Delivery. You will not succeed with only one.
josh added 10mo ago