words to live by
“The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” - Richard Powers
Collaborative Fund • Makes You Think
“I learned early that people will admire your work more if they are not jealous of you.” – Benjamin Franklin
Collaborative Fund • Makes You Think
“An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.”
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John Junor
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John Junor
A quote by John Junor
“ You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are rest-less till they find their rest in you. ”
Glenn F. Chesnut • The God-Shaped Hole in the Human Soul
Saint Augustine
Source: Farnam Street
The tragedy of modern man is that he spends more time optimising what’s on his CV than his eulogy.
George Mackx.com
Steve Jobs, in Make Something Wonderful.
“The most important lesson I ever learned was that you have to hire people better than you are. […] In normal life, the difference in dynamic range from average to best is usually 30, 40, 50 percent. Twice as good: rarely. So the difference between an average meal in downtown Palo Alto tonight and the best one—maybe it’s two to one. Flight home, if you’re going home for the holidays: 50 percent difference. Rental cars, breakfast cereals. I don’t know, pick one.
But I saw that Woz [Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak]—one guy—having meetings in his head could run circles around two hundred engineers at Hewlett-Packard. That’s what I saw. And I thought, “Wow.” And I didn’t really understand it at first.
Then I started to understand it. It took me about ten years to actually try to put it into practice. Because you’d try to hire and find those people. And they’re really hard to find. And everyone says they are all prima donnas. But it turns out that when they work with each other, they’re not prima donnas. They really like it. The first time I tried to build that organization—that was the[…]”
Excerpt From
Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs
https://books.apple.com/us/book/make-something-wonderful/id6446905902
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