Matthew Giampetroni

Cash deals do better, on average, than deals funded with equity or a combination of cash and equity.36 The basic idea is that management of the buyer will finance a deal with cash if it thinks the stock of its company is undervalued and will use stock if it thinks it is overvalued. Cash deals also provide a higher payoff for the shareholders of the

You can’t charge a premium price for giving people what they expect, and you won’t ever have break-out products that way—the kinds of products that people line up around the block for.

markets—these sublime machines that synthesize beliefs and aggregate them into prices—instantiate a secularized version of the sacred

Every great burst of creativity or action is inseminated with the wiles of boredom

If you can find the thing you do for its own sake, the compulsive piece of your process, and dial that up and up, beyond the imaginary ceiling for that activity you may be creating, my experience is the world comes to you for that thing and you massively outperform the others who don’t actually like hitting that particular ball.

the first and most important goal of an attention diet should be to consciously limit the number of distractions we’re exposed to