All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
– from Anna Karenina book by Leo Tolstoy
A daytime snooze keeps the mind …
A daytime snooze keeps the mind fresh, shuts out the noise, and provides a chance to reboot the system.
– from The Education of a Value Investor book by Guy Spier
When the neighbors tell me what …
When the neighbors tell me what to buy and then I wish I had taken their advice, it’s a sure sign that the market has reached a top and is due for a tumble.
– from One Up on Wall Street book by Peter Lynch
Some days are good, and some …
Some days are good, and some days are bad, and some days are the days you get a dead dog in the mail. They can’t all be winners.
– from Let’s Pretend This Never Happened book by Jenny Lawson
It’s dangerous to think that everything …
It’s dangerous to think that everything is a sign from God.
– from Pachinko book by Min Jin Lee
Women are amazing creatures – sweet …
Women are amazing creatures – sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
– from The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress book by Robert A. Heinlein
It’s good to be humble. But …
It’s good to be humble. But there’s such a thing as taking it too far.
– from The Cat Who Saved Books book by Sosuke Natsukawa
A man who is a father …
A man who is a father to a daughter is different from one who is a father to a son. One is the left shoe and the other is the right. They are the same but not interchangeable.
– from An American Marriage book by Tayari Jones
Look at that chessboard we put …
Look at that chessboard we put back in place. Look at how ordered and safe and peaceful it looks now, before a game starts. It’s a beautiful thing. But it is boring. It is dead. And yet the moment you make a move on that board, things change. Things begin to get more chaotic. And that chaos builds with every single move you make. It’s an easy game to play. But a hard one to master. Every move you make opens a whole new world of possibility.
– from The Midnight Library book by Matt Haig
We at Nalanda love stable, predictable …
We at Nalanda love stable, predictable, boring industries. Give us electric fans over electric vehicles, boilers over biotech, sanitaryware over semiconductors, and enzymes over e-commerce. We like industries in which the winners and losers have been largely sorted out and the rules of the game are apparent to everyone. For everything else, thanks, but no thanks.
– from What I Learned About Investing from Darwin book by Pulak Prasad