David Horne
@davidhorne
Lifelong apprentice.
David Horne
@davidhorne
Lifelong apprentice.
You’ll get 10x better results by elevating good behavior rather than punishing bad behavior, especially in children and animals.
Oaktree’s investment philosophy doesn’t prohibit having opinions, just acting as if they’re right.
Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.
A team at the NIH recently found that for every two pounds a person loses, for example, their brain unconsciously ramps up their hunger and causes them to eat about 100 more calories.
For any business person, "Me too' won't do" feels right intuitively. Action, creation, risk-these lie at the root of invention. Business value does not start with bloodless analytics. Passion, monomania and domain mastery fuel invention and so are central. The compelling continuing contribution of founders demonstrates this. Planning rarely creates
... See moreIn the fourth century, John Chrysostom called the home, newly created in the marriage covenant, the "small church."7 In the exchanging of vows, the husband and the wife were anointed by the Spirit of God to be the established priesthood of this church-in-miniature, the redeemed Adam and Eve, building a particular place of worship on planet Earth.
In
... See moreThe less important he makes himself, the more important he probably is (and vice versa).
At the back end, patient investing means no arbitrary timeline to sell and high opportunity costs. Proper patience isn’t necessarily holding forever, but instead applies flexibility – saying you’ll never sell is a form of pride, because there are great reasons, helpful reasons, kind reasons to exit an investment. However, not being a forced seller
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