Great Quotes

Great Quotes

Wisdom is competence with regard to the realities of life. Quotes are often a clear and concise means to access wisdom. These are some of my favorite quotes collected over many years. Although I agree with many of them, appearance ≠ endorsement. The most recently added quotes are at the top.

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If they don’t buy from you, they’ll probably buy from someone worse.
Chris Poch
Things turn out best for those that make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Victor Hugo
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden
Truth is how the world really works. Wisdom is aligning one’s actions to truth.
Systemize the predictable so you can humanize the exceptional.
Isadore Sharp
What a time to be alive.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered.
Rich Sutton
Kindness is paying attention out loud.
Unknown
Alpha is a function of neglect.
Dan Rasmussen
In my end is my beginning.
T.S. Elliot
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
Franz Kafka
Without human direction, compute runs in circles.
Satya Nadella
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just go to work.
Jimmy Carr
AI will explode the myth that humans are widgets.
Ben Thompson
Education is not the filling of buckets but the lighting of fires.
William Butler Yeats
You can feel quality.
Walt Disney
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
Routine is the thief of time. If your year feels like it vanished, it’s because it was boring. Novelty expands your life.
David Eagleman
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.
Steve Jobs
Software 1.0 easily automates what you can specify. Software 2.0 easily automates what you can verify.
Andrej Karpathy
At scale, nothing is a commodity.
Satya Nadella
The instagram generation experiences the present moment as an anticipated memory.
Daniel Kahneman
Quality is habit.
Victor Wooten
The difference between hearing and listening is attention.
A moat today is simply a temporary buffer that helps a company get ahead of the next innovation cycle.
Anonymous
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
Taste is how you teach the world to treat your attention.
Stepfanie Tyler
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting a tomato in a fruit salad. Philosophy is wondering whether ketchup is a smoothie.
Unknown
The obvious is obviously wrong.
George Soros
The world is overweight easily understood data and underweight everything else.
Michael Howell
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Jim Rohn
If my life is fruitless, it doesn’t matter who praises me. And if my life is fruitful, it doesn’t matter who criticizes me.
John Bunyan
Anxiety, I’ve come to realize, is a very expensive habit.
Ryan Holiday
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Seneca
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Diraeli
Make sure the cathedral is not taken over by the casino.
Warren Buffett
Don't be patient about acting on deals that make sense.
Warren Buffett
The great pleasure in this business (investing) is having people trust you.
Warren Buffett
Your brain would turn to mush if you didn't have a few problems.
Warren Buffett
The world is not going to adapt to you; you need to adapt to the world.
Warren Buffett
What you trade your attention for is what your life becomes.
James Clear
Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.
Unknown
The most important quality of an investor is temperament, not intellect.
Warren Buffett
The young man knows the rules; the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes