Epictetus: Commitment
In every act observe the things which come first and those which follow…. If you do not, at first you will approach it with alacrity…. but afterward you will be ashamed. A man wishes to conquer the...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher: Interventions
The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited...
View ArticleAbraham Lincoln: Sharpen the axe
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln: Sharpen the axeFiled under: Quotes Tagged: Abraham Lincoln
View ArticleViktor Frankl: The power to choose your response
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist Viktor Frankl...
View ArticleThe Pig of Happiness – Spread the love
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View ArticleThe enemy within ~ Abraham Lincoln
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be...
View ArticleHollow Trees | Peggy Noonan
Great metaphor from Peggy Noonan: You don’t know a tree is hollow until you push hard against it and it falls. The establishments of both parties did not know, a year ago, that they were hollow trees....
View ArticleTrue wisdom, Henry Fielding
Wisdom, in short, whose lessons have been represented as so hard to learn by those who were never at her school, teaches us only to extend a simple maxim universally known and followed even in the...
View ArticleThe aim of propaganda is to annihilate the truth | Garry Kasparov
The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth. The aim of propaganda is to annihilate the truth | Garry Kasparov
View ArticleRecency Bias | Ray Dalio
The biggest mistake in investing is believing the last three years is representative of what the next three years is going to be like. ~ Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates Recency Bias | Ray Dalio
View ArticleBenjamin Graham: The intelligent investor…..
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. Benjamin Graham: The intelligent investor…..
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