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When Bolles’s quote appeared in the newspaper the next day, Joe cut it out, pasted it in his scrapbook, and wrote next to it, “Coach said Cal had their necks out a foot. He is giving out pessimistic reports so that they will stick them out farther. Makes them easier to cut off.”
Daniel James Brown • The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The sentiments above are John Wooden’s, the most successful coach in the history of college basketball. His teams won more consecutive games and championships than any others in history.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
if anyone believes in your business more than you do, you’re in the wrong business
— a maxim of napolean, recontextualised by the dude behind the Founder’s podcast (forgot his name mb)
John Bogle • "Enough"
in an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998) Hillary was philosophical about his motivations and said, ‘It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.’
Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.
Roger Lowenstein • Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
At Yale, more students come from families in the top 1 percent of income than from the bottom 60 percent,
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
John Wooden is a legend. The coach of UCLA’s