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Some of my favorite quotes. Many of them are from amazing writers. Check out selected notes and books from My Amazon Page.
Nassim Taleb
"I have the fondest memories of time spent in places called ugly, the most boring ones of places called scenic."
"The Web's 'connectedness' creates a peculiar form of informational and pseudosocial promiscuity, which makes one feel clean after Web."
"What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment."
"The tragedy is that much of what you think is random is in your control and, what's worse, the opposite.."
Publius Syrus
"No amount of gain satisfies avarice."
"A favor granted before it is asked is doubly acceptable."
"Fortune gives many loans but never presents."
"Many receive advice, few profit by it."
Robert Ciadini
"A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do."
"Little things are not always little; not when they link to the big rules of life, like reciprocity"
"Anwar Sadat. Before international negotiations began, Sadat would assure his bargaining opponents that they and the citizens of their country were widely known for their cooperativeness and fairness. With this kind of flattery, he not only created positive feelings, he also connected his opponent's identities to a course of action that served his goals."
Warren Buffet/Charlie Munger
*Buffett's main rule to employees - we can take bad news, but not late. (paraphrased)
"The media has an interest in translating the improbable into the believable."
"The toast we seldom hear: Arco was celebrating their huge triumph of making a lot of money out of the North Slope oilfields in Alaska. And in the house counsel there was an Irishman who was very outspoken and had a fair amount of charm. And he was highly regarded. So he could get by with talking frankly. And the whole group was toasting one another: 'Aren't we great people for having done this great thing?' and this Irish house counsel raised his glass and said, 'Well, I'd like to toast the man who really caused our triumph.' He said, 'Here's to King Faisal .. Every calculation we made was off by 200%. All the costs were way higher and the difficulties greater than we could ever conceived. All the predictions we made were totally asinine and wouldn't have worked with the oil prices we projected. But along came King Faisal and the oil cartel and raised the price of oil so high that they made us all look good. Let's honor the proper man here tonight.' This is the kind of toast you will seldom hear in corporate life -because for most people a toast like that will get you fired. And a guy who's bringing reality into a pleasant party and making peple face their own limitations and errors, will have poor prospects."
Miscellaneous
"Has adding 'Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail' to your email signature caused even one person to not print an email? I don't think so... It has only caused others to add it to their email signature, wasting memory.." - Matt Aaron
"There is no such thing as society. There are individuals, men and women, and there are families." - Margaret Thatcher
"We fight wars over race. But as to what is possibly the single most meaningful characteristic that divides the human species, the presence or absence of conscience, we remain effectively oblivious." -Martha Stout on sociopaths
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