“The desire to get something for nothing has been very costly to many people who have dealt with me and with other con men… When people learn—as I doubt they will—that they can’t get something for nothing, crime will diminish and we shall all live in greater harmony.” - Joseph Weil
“You must be slow in deliberation and swift in execution.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
“…you yourself are largely the agent of anything bad that happens to you. With more prudence, wiser policies, and greater vision, you could have avoided the danger. So when something goes wrong, look deep into yourself-not in an emotional way, to blame yourself or indulge your feelings of guilt, but to make sure that you start your next campaign with a firmer step and greater vision.” - Robert Greene
“You must pay attention to the pattern more than the apologies.” - Robert Greene
“We become what we pay attention to.” - Scott Galloway
“It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” - Charles Darwin
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” - Peter Drucker
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.” - Jonathan Swift
“Abundance makes me poor.” - Ovid
“I want to be known for making good on what I’ve learned.” - Charley Crockett
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” - Seneca
“Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.” - Frederich Nietzsche
“Any army is like a horse, in that it reflects the temper and the spirit of its rider. If there is an uneasiness and an uncertainty, it transmits itself through the reins, and the horse feels uneasy and uncertain.” - Colonel John W Thomason, Jr.
performance = potential - interference
(taken from Coaching for Performance by John Whitmore)
“My policy is to have no policy.” - Abraham Lincoln
“What limits individuals as well as nations is the inability to confront reality, to see things for what they are.” -Robert Greene
“If you count on safety and do not think of danger, if you do not know enough to be wary when enemies arrive, this is called a sparrow nesting on a tent, a fish swimming in a cauldron – they won’t last the day.” - Chuko Liang
“Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.” - William Hazlitt
“I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis