Life is one long motherfucking imaginary game that has no scoreboard, no referee, and isn’t over until we’re dead and buried.
– from Can’t Hurt Me book by David Goggins
Category: Quotes
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
A distance you know is shorter …
A distance you know is shorter den one you don’t.
– from James book by Percival Everett
The world watches America – the …
The world watches America – the only great power in history made up of people from every corner of the planet, comprising every race and faith and cultural practice – to see if our experiment in democracy can work. To see if we can do what no other nation has ever done. To see if we can actually live up to the meaning of our creed.
– from A Promised Land book by Barack Obama
I tell you, this life doesn’t …
I tell you, this life doesn’t simply come with its share of unpredictability; surprise is its most conspicuous feature.
– from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
Citizenship is obsolete. To optimize your …
Citizenship is obsolete. To optimize your lifetime earnings and become a Sovereign Individual you will need to become a customer of a government or protection service rather than a citizen. Instead of paying whatever tax burden is imposed upon you by grasping politicians, you will be better positioned to prosper in the Information Age by freeing yourself to negotiate a private tax treaty that obliges you to pay no more for services of government than they are actually worth to you.
– from The Sovereign Individual book by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
Life was opportunity, a chest of …
Life was opportunity, a chest of drawers to open, one after the other.
– from Hello Beautiful book by Ann Napolitano
When a thousand people believe some …
When a thousand people believe some made-up story for one month – that’s fake news. When a billion people believe it for a thousand years – that’s a religion.
– from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century book by Yuval Noah Harari
I love scandals about other people …
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
– from The Picture of Dorian Gray book by Oscar Wilde
Think, my friend. Arrange your ideas …
Think, my friend. Arrange your ideas. Be methodical. Be orderly. There is the secret of success.
– from Murder on the Links book by Agatha Christie