A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how [...]
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
I came across a good link (via) to a collection of interviews featured in Esquire magazine in a monthy section they call “What I’ve Learned”, which features the thoughts and insights of well-known people. It is well worth your time to read every one of these interviews. This is exactly the kind of material that [...]
From, The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers:
Enter Action with Boldness
If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily [...]
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in [...]
Quotations by Warren Buffett (1930 - )
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
The only time to buy these is on a day [...]
Values were meant to be costly. If it doesn’t cost much, we probably wouldn’t appreciate the value.
To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.
You cannot succeed by yourself. It’s hard to find [...]
All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power. Trust no government! Not even mine! (Chapterhouse: Dune)
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a [...]