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- “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn…
- “I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the mos…
- A young man comes to see Mozart, and says, “I want to compose symphonies.” And Mozart s…
- “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
- “There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they d…
- Like everything in life, if you are willing to make the short-term sacrifice, you’ll have …
- “Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits a…
- Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. "
- “Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
- “To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.” – Seneca
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- Life can only be understood backwards - but it must be lived forwards "
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- He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.” – Voltaire"
- ‘’I frequently tell the apocryphal story about how Max Planck, after he won the Nobel Priz…
- What a great poem…
- “The ability to destroy your ideas rapidly instead of slowly when
- “I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questione…
- Do you have enough?
- Will
- “If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is…
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- “The Palest Ink Is Clearer Than The Fondest Memory”
- “Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for mo…
- “BRICK BY BORING BRICK“
- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know litt…
- Two Monks and a Woman
- ‘’For example, an apartment unit renovation that might have cost $6,500 is now being quote…
- The problem is not people being uneducated.
- “There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can’t be because speculation is as old as the …
- Yuval Noah Harari once wrote:
- The future is coming fast… this sounds like sci-fi story.
- “It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.”
- “When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty in…
- “I certainly don’t think recessions are a relic of the past due to Fed intervention. There…
- The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you sho…
- I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usu…
- What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most impor…
- I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. Isaac Newton
- “The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.…
- "March's increase was the first time since the pandemic began that rent growth had increas…
- Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his…
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- “I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses’ asses. I know I’ll perform bett…
- If you don’t look at yourself and think, ‘Wow how stupid I was a year ago,’ then you must …
- ‘’President Biden’s new economic plan would eliminate a tax break for many real-estate own…
- ‘’The financial markets feel wonderful right now. It would have been nearly impossible to …
- “Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”"
- All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure."
- Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."