David Horne

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can bring to Him who is complete in Himself.

flushing out the Black Swans—and exploiting them. Remember, your counterpart might not even know how important the information is, or even that they shouldn’t reveal it. So keep pushing, probing, and gathering information.

Love and faith are at home in the mystery of the Godhead. Let reason kneel in reverence outside.

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

Failure is never fatal. It may feel like it for a while, but it is only a challenge. Keeping athletics in the proper perspective for our children helps them keep their problems in perspective.

In other words, the key to the leader's public usefulness is his inner, unseen life. Character is what we are when no one is looking. The leader is leading all the time and, for the most part, unconsciously. Your holiness matters greatly to those you have been entrusted to lead.

If the need for holiness is one challenge I shall take from this book,

What we remove is as important as what we add. It isn't just the ideas that get the work done.