You have treasures hidden within you – extraordinary treasures – and so do I, and so does everyone around us. And bringing those treasures to light takes work and faith and focus and courage and hours of devotion, and the clock is ticking, and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have time anymore to think so small.
– from Big Magic book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Wisdom that isn’t distilled in our …
Wisdom that isn’t distilled in our own crucible can’t help us.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
People don’t change. Especially criminals, crooks …
People don’t change. Especially criminals, crooks, and cheats.
– from What I Learned About Investing from Darwin book by Pulak Prasad
Artificial intelligence and biotechnology are giving …
Artificial intelligence and biotechnology are giving humanity the power to reshape and re-engineer life. Very soon somebody will have to decide how to use this power – based on some implicit or explicit story about the meaning of life. Philosophers are very patient people, but engineers are far less patient, and investors are the least patient of all. If you don’t know what to do with the power to engineer life, market forces will not wait a thousand years for you to come up with an answer. The invisible hand of the market will force upon you its own blind reply. Unless you are happy to entrust the future of life to the mercy of quarterly revenue reports, you need a clear idea what life is all about.
– from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century book by Yuval Noah Harari
One of our skills as economists …
One of our skills as economists is to take something exciting and impenetrable and deconstruct it into something boring and understandable. While that doesn’t make us great party guests, it does allow us to sometimes see things that others miss.
– from Power and Prediction book by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb
Expectations are like hidden rocks in …
Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path – all they do is trip you up.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Money buys you freedom in the …
Money buys you freedom in the material world. It’s not going to make you happy, it’s not going to solve your health problems, it’s not going to make your family great, it’s not going to make you fit, it’s not going to make you calm. But it will solve a lot of external problems. It’s a reasonable step to go ahead and make money.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
Freeze a Muslim’s assets, they say …
Freeze a Muslim’s assets, they say, and you make him run to Pakistan, leaving all his wealth behind him. Catch the lizard’s tail and he’ll snap it off! This so-called secular state gets some damn clever ideas.
– from Midnight’s Children book by Salman Rushdie
Your husband is not going to …
Your husband is not going to take care of you the way you think. Nobody can take care of you the way you need to take care of yourself. It’s your job to take care of yourself like that.
– from The Wedding People book by Alison Espach
Money that can’t be accounted for …
Money that can’t be accounted for is a trapdoor that can open under your feet when you least expect it.
– from Billy Summers book by Stephen King