how fast you learn is a lot more important than how much you know to begin with. So in general I say that people emphasize too much how much they know and not how fast they're learning.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.

– Thomas Paine

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

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“Money in a business is like gas in your car. You don’t want to run out, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”– Tim O’Reilly

“Contrary to popular belief, time does not heal, time does not fly, time does not do anything. Time has no consciousness. It does nothing for you. The key to happiness now is what you choose to do with your time right now. Are you, right now, making the most valuable use of your time? This moment is, after all, the time of your life. Your choices a... See more

“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.”

—Arthur Schopenhauer

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson