“I insist on a lot of time being spent thinking, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.” - Warren Buffet
“Emotions and intellect work inversely. When emotions go up, intellect goes down.” - Keith J. Cunningham
“Most people, when confronted with a choice of changing their thoughts or proving there is no need to change, get busy on the proof.” - John Maynard Keynes
“It is not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.” - Charlie Munger
“What I really loved, what I loved, is having painted. That was the high. Making something that would have never existed in the entirety of humanity had I not been there at that specific moment to make it.” - Kaveh Akbar (Martyr!)
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett
“You can learn almost everything you need—an a lot more than other people would like you to know—simply by watching and listening, keeping your eyes peeled and your ears open, and your mouth shut.” - Chris Voss
“The person who asks the most times gets the most. The problem is, people don’t like being asked. So you have to give value consistently so you can earn the right to keep asking. Winners win because they take more shots on goal. But they only get those shots on goal because they know how to get into scoring position.” - Alex Hormozi
“There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.” - Seneca
“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.” - Yuval Noah Harari
“The gap between your intentions and your actions is a decent forward-looking indicator of your future success, emotionally and financially.” - Scott Galloway
“Irrational fears trump rational reasoning.” - Maria Konnikova
“…you must invest as much energy into hiring as you expect the team to invest in their jobs.” - Will Guidara
“It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices”. - Marcus Aurelius
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou
“Pattern recognition and association are crucial cognitive processes by which we understand and navigate the world. They allow us to predict what might happen next based on prior experiences.” - Daniel Kahneman
“Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.” - Steve Jobs
“The virtue of a person is measured not by his outstanding efforts but by his everyday behavior.” - Blaise Pascal
“Most businesses that fail die of starvation, not murder.” - Allan Dib
“When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” - Viktor Frankl