quotes

I hate quotations. Let me know what you think. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fortune falls heavily on those for whom she’s unexpected. The one always on the lookout easily endures. --- Seneca

No man steps in the same river twice. --- Heraclitus

There’s integrity, intelligence, experience, and dedication. That’s what human enterprises need to run well. --- Charlie Munger

Nothing is easier that self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true --- Demosthenes

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --- Bertrand Russell

The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds --- John Maynard Keynes

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool --- Richard Feynman

The task is not to see what lies dimly in the disance, but to do what lies clearly at hand --- Thomas Carlyle

A favour or gift is most effective when it is personal, significant, and unexpected. --- Charlie Munger

Better to trip with the feet than with the tounge. --- Zeno

Power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals. --- Robert Caro

To stop courageously at the surface. --- Nietzsche

There’s integrity, intelligence, experience, and dedication. That’s what human enterprises need to run well. --- Charles Munger

Man suffers much because he seeks too much, is foolishly ambitious and grotesquely overestimates his capacities. – Isaiah Berlin

Enjoy yourself, it’s Later Than You Think. — Guy Lombardo

All I want to know is where I’m going to die so I’ll never go there. – Charlie Munger

Life is about direction not speed — Sahil Bloom

Concentrate every minute on doing what’s in front of you.” — Marcus Aurelius

If your map doesn’t match the ground, get a different map – Not sure, heard at the VA

All power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton

Man is pushed by drives but pulled by values – Victor Frankl

Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! (Pause. Vehemently.)

The more specific a thing is, the more universal it becomes — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Learn the rules before you start breaking them — TS Elliot

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. – F Scott Fitzgerald

The trend is your friend until the bend at the end – Marty Zweig

As a leader, every time you’re talking, you have to be talking values — General James Mattis