Matthew Giampetroni

Beyond deliberately architecting the people who surround you, the best way to control your mindset is to “own” the way you speak to yourself, what sports psychologists call your “self-talk”

Capital allocation is ultimately about assessing opportunities and executing on the ones that are attractive. As such, it requires a willingness to be a buyer or a seller given the circumstances. 

the people around you will either protect or infringe on the climate within your skull.

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

The frenetic build-up of bubbles and their violent collapse provides some of the purest examples of the mimetic process—they crystallize fear, hope, hype, overconfidence, or under-confidence

According to Kapferer, “luxury is superlative, not comparative”. The beauty of luxury is that no one can definitively say whether a Louis Vuitton bag is better than an Hermes bag because that concept doesn’t even make sense