words to live by
A knife cuts because it has a narrow focus.
—Cleddie Keith
“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
—John Muir
One of my favorite #quotes.
Impatience is an expensive emotion.
Every app wants your decision in seconds. Every employer wants results this quarter. Every investment platform profits when you trade. Meanwhile, the boring investor who indexed and touched nothing decades ago owns your neighborhood. Who's winning?
The patient inherit everything the impatient leave behind.
Every app wants your decision in seconds. Every employer wants results this quarter. Every investment platform profits when you trade. Meanwhile, the boring investor who indexed and touched nothing decades ago owns your neighborhood. Who's winning?
The patient inherit everything the impatient leave behind.
And our experience is that a single winning decision can make a breathtaking difference over time. (Think GEICO as a business decision, Ajit Jain as a managerial decision and my luck in finding Charlie Munger as a one-of-a-kind partner, personal advisor and steadfast friend.) Mistakes fade away; winners can forever blossom.
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Warren Buffett
“December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.”
—Attributed to Mark Twain (no one seems to know for sure if he actually said this, but in any case it’s a good line)
“What focus means is saying ‘No’ to something that you—with every bone in your body—you think is a phenomenal idea. And you wake up thinking about it. But you say ‘No’ to it, because you’re focusing on something else.”
Quote by: Sir Jony Ive, discussing Steve Jobs .
Jonathan Yagel • 1, #102 - A hard 'No'
Writing converts your ideas from vague to bad. But that's a step forward, because once you can see the brokenness, you can fix it.