Quotations
Humanity's wisdom distilled
Naval Ravikant
A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.
Tyrion Lannister
A Lannister always pays his debts.
Peter Thiel
Competition is for losers. If you want to create and capture lasting value, build a monopoly.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.
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Paul Gauguin
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object.
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Murray Gell-Mann
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
A.G. Lafley
Strategy is about making specific choices to win in the marketplace.
Aristotle
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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Michael Faraday
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
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Frederick the Great
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off ol...
Jerry Seinfeld
The four levels of comedy: make your friends laugh, make strangers laugh, get paid to make strangers laugh, and make peo...
George Orwell
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Will Guidara
Hospitality is a dialogue, not a monologue.
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Simon Sinek
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
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David Epstein
Compare yourself to yourself yesterday, not to younger people who aren't you.
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Malcolm Gladwell
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes y...
Musonius Rufus
The person who trains the body to endure hardship is far better prepared to manage difficulties than one who has not.
Qin Shi Huang
Those who do not learn from history deserve to have it erased.
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George R.R. Martin
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
