- Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.—Gramsci
- Greatness is forged in the crucible of struggle, pain and opposition.
- There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself—Raymond Chandler
- Superior technique meet inferior morals, bodies proliferate.
- It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.—Alvin Toffler
- To hesitate on our way is to engage in bodily thought.
- Exploit, Explore and Copy. Best (own) practice, new practice, best practice (of others).
- Nostalgia is a seductive liar.—George Wildman Ball
- Never spend, invest.
- What matters is where you are and what you do next. The past dies not matter.
- Fit in or stand out.
- Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.—Jim Rohn
- Effectiveness is people.
- Small yard, tall fence.
- When the bottleneck is energy, takeoff is imminent.
- Whole worlds pivot on acts of imagination.—Doctor Who
- The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.—Rabindranath Tagore
- Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.—Cormac McCarthy
- Teach yourself what you want to know, this moment.
- Chaqu’un doit choisir son chemin.—Sartre
- You can have anything, but not everything.
- It’s better to struggle in paradise than to be unhappy and rich somewhere else.—Luke Shephardson
- Enjoy your time.
- A person or society in decline will takes themselves seriously, because no one else will.
- Markets are forward-looking but always wrong.
- There’s a big difference between owning something and having it.
- A life without parties is a long journey without inns.—Democritus
- People learn by doing or by watching other people dying.
- Distribution is normally the bottleneck, not creation.
- Build relationships with people who don’t share what isn’t theirs to share.
- The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.—Alberto Brandolini
- Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man’s mad desire become his god?—Virgil
- It is right to mock empty talk.
- Everything must be paid for twice. First is acquisition. Second is incorporation.
- In limitations he first shows himself the master.—Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- There are many ways to mismanage anything.
- Where and when are more salient questions than why.
- Disagreement that affords no defense, when the opinion of the other stands next to ours in equal dignity, uninvited leads to anger.
- Greed loves nothing more than what is not permitted.
- Say yes, and then, don’t do it.
- The people who know aren’t talking. The ones who don’t know won’t shut up.
- Don’t trust your inputs.
- It’s always your own ass you sit on.
- There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.—Henry Miller
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