Tom Schmidt

“Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”

― Winston Churchill

"No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future."

"The beginning is mostly luck. The end is mostly choices."

“Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time... identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.”

- Evan Williams

Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you're smarter than you are.

A timely reminder from Clear Thinking:

“ One reason the best in the world make consistently good decisions is they rarely find themselves forced into a decision by circumstances. ”

But in Chapter 7 On The Shortness Of Life, Seneca said: “You must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long.”