Roberto Colindres

Be friendly to those who enjoy your work and friendlier to those who attack it."

You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing.

What we get out of life is not determined by the good feelings we desire, but by what bad feelings we’re willing and able to sustain to get us to those good feelings

Have maximum financial flexibility to face both hazards and opportunities.”

— Charlie Munger

"If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your... See more

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"It's never the right time, but right now is usually the best time."

SYNTHESIZER "In the twenty-first century the world will not be run

by those who possess mere information alone... What then? The answer is clear: synthesis. We are

drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically... See more

Scientist Donella Meadows on being proactive, yet positive:

"There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair."