Since 2008, markets have become a venue for wealth extraction rather than wealth creation. Markets no longer perform true market functions. In markets today, the dead hands of the academic and the rentier have replaced the invisible hand of the merchant or the entrepreneur.
– from The Death of Money book by James Rickards
Category: Quotes
Singing is magic. When I sing …
Singing is magic. When I sing, I own who I am. I can communicate purely. When you sing you stop using the language of “Hi, how are you…” You’re able to say things that are much more profound. Singing takes me to a mystical place where language doesn’t matter anymore, where anything is possible.
– from The Woman in Me book by Britney Spears
At some point in a woman’s …
At some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.
– from City of Girls book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Young folks always think old folks …
Young folks always think old folks worry too much, and old folks always think young folks don’t worry enough.
– from The Searcher book by Tana French
What was happiness but an extravagance …
What was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
I guess that’s true of people …
I guess that’s true of people in general. They only see what they want to see, even when the truth is right in front of them.
– from The Next Wife book by Kaira Rouda
This education is a helluva thing …
This education is a helluva thing. Any little child could pick up. And yet the blasted thing does turn out so damn important later on.
– from A House for Mr. Biswas book by V. S. Naipaul
Wrongness can be amusing. It keeps …
Wrongness can be amusing. It keeps life interesting. If we were all right all the time, where would that leave us?
– from The Way of Kings book by Brandon Sanderson
The point of a child is …
The point of a child is not what you hope he will accomplish in your name but the pleasure that he will bring you, whatever form it comes in, even if it is a form that is barely recognizable as pleasure at all – and, more important, the pleasure you will be privileged to bring him.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
Please remember that great companies and …
Please remember that great companies and wonderful lives don’t happen by sudden revolution. Nope. They materialize via incremental evolution. Tiny, daily wins and iterations stack into outcomes of excellence, over the long-term. But few of us have the patience these days to endure the long game. As a result, not many of us ever become legends.
– from The 5 AM Club book by Robin Sharma