We want to be permanent owners. We don’t invest unless we think we can own a business forever. A bad business that is dirt cheap? Pass. A mediocre business at a low price? Thanks, but no thanks. A high-quality business at a fair price? Give me more so I can never let go.
– from What I Learned About Investing from Darwin book by Pulak Prasad
Life is change. If you aren’t …
Life is change. If you aren’t growing and evolving you’re standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
– from Still Life book by Louise Penny
AI has the transformation potential of …
AI has the transformation potential of electricity, but if history is a guide, that transformation is going to be a long and bumpy ride.
– from Power and Prediction book by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb
Love comes like lightning, and disappears …
Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you’re lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you’ll spend your life yearning for a man you can’t have. I advise you to forget about love, princess. Pleasure is simpler, and duty more important. Learn to be satisfied with them.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I think we talk about happiness …
I think we talk about happiness all wrong. As if it’s this fixed state we’re going to reach. Like we’ll just be able to live there, forever. But that’s not my experience with happiness. For me, it comes and goes. It shows up and then disappears like a bubble.
– from The Wedding People book by Alison Espach
One great asset of the rich …
One great asset of the rich is that they think differently than everyone else. If you do what everyone else does, you’ll wind up having what everyone else has. And for most people, what they have is years of hard work, unfair taxes, and a lifetime of debt.
– from Rich Dad’s CASHFLOW Quadrant book by Robert Kiyosaki
Life turns on a dime. Sometimes …
Life turns on a dime. Sometimes toward us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?
– from 11/22/63 book by Stephen King
Meditation is turning off society and …
Meditation is turning off society and listening to yourself. It only “works” when done for its own sake. Hiking is walking meditation. Journaling is writing meditation. Praying is gratitude meditation. Showering is accidental meditation. Sitting quietly is direct meditation.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
Even the wisest don’t know what’s …
Even the wisest don’t know what’s hidden in the depths of their being.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
If people could just stop using …
If people could just stop using the word fun, stop expecting everything to be fun, everything could be fun again.
– from The Wedding People book by Alison Espach