- How is life? Harsh according to good standards, but well according to harsh ones.
- Thank your enemies with guest-gifts of pain.
- The angle of the dangle is proportional to the heat of the meat.
- Two is one, and one is none.
- Risk cannot be destroyed, only transformed.
- No pain, no premium. Over the long term, risk leads to reward.
- Diversification was three dimensional: what, how, and when.
- It is the risk you are unaware of that most often gets you.
- Every possible trade has a long and a short end.
- The more diversified, the more difficult to time.
- When unsure between two options, go 50/50.
- Assume the market is right, and you are missing something.
- Weizenbaum’s questions: Is it good? Do we need it?
- Kindness down among the meek is harvested in crisis.
- Elites are defined by those that cannot be criticized or held accountable? Who is that for you?
- The enemies of learning are work and sleep.
- Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.
- If you are wearing it, you ate it.
- Avoid people of base work and philosophical sentiment.
- Dwell with a lame w2man, and you will learn how to limp.
- The trees cannot be harmed if the Lorax is armed.
- Pick a number or pick a time. You cannot do both.
- It only takes a few exchanges to set the price.
- Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; shaving ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear.
- Patience beats greed.
- Three options: profit, slavery or do without.
- Critique is for lovers. Hatred isn’t critique.
- Climb, conserve, confess.
- Innovation is easier with a relatively small team that has to make a decisive and clear concentrated bet and that doesn’t tolerate any mediocre performers. that’s it.”
- If your intuition is good, follow it. If your intuition is bad, it doesn’t matter what you do.
- There is a fine line between horror and hilarity.
- The best games have no end game.
- If you want to do X, just keep doing it. Most people stop.
- Excess production breeds violence.
- Barbell strategy. It’s at the extreme ends where it is easiest to learn.
- Competence and power are often in conflict.
- Capital preservation is key. You don’t have to make your fortune every session.
- Conviction is either extremely difficult or free.
- The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
- Your opinion of the world is also a confession.
- Wine from water is not so small, but the greatest miracle is that anything is here at all.
- In any market, the first thing to understand is the pricing drivers. Always, without exception.
- What needs to happen to achieve the result I want? Are the people say something, ask whether it is true.
- The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
- The circus tent fell and the clowns are loose tonight.
- States fail when they cannot distinguish fools from serious men.
- Do not defend someone you don’t know against evidence you haven’t seen.
- Distributions trump averages.
- Be definition, the unsustainable will fail.
- Prophets denounce, circumscribe the limits and demarcate what is, or should be, impossible.
- Are you an effective broker of trust?
- Peace makes wealth. War simply moves the spoils from the weak to the strong.
- Better to be blunt than misunderstood.
- You are the tool, not the work.
- Don’t borrow trouble before its time.
- Forgiveness is better than regret.
- A prayer answered is often a curse.
- Conversations are the water in the river of community.
- Learn how to be corrected without being offended. Humility is important for growth.—Feynman
- In every situation, know your edge and your exits.
- Pray for understanding in your darkness.
- Loyalty must run both ways.
- Innocence based on ignorance is unfit to protect itself.
- The long game is less crowded.
- Men exchange masks, but leave the heart open, exposed.
- Children teach us true love.
- Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.—Hunter S. Thompson
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