one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day:
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom"
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Ken Griffin weeded out a candidate by asking “if you made $10 million what would you do?”
“I would quit and I would climb the highest peaks around the world.”
Griffin wanted him to say “how they’d climb the next mountain at Citadel” instead
Don't join a company or industry that has contempt for its customers. You can make a lot of money that way, and of course it gives you a feeling of superiority, but you'll never do great work for a market you despise.
Toyota CEO on Chinese competition: "Unless things change, we will not survive. I want everyone to acknowledge this sense of crisis."
Honda CEO on Chinese competition after recently visiting the country: "We have no chance against this." https://t.co/FUI4WPLpXg
Warren Buffett: "I like the way I lived 30 years ago — and I live that way now. The only difference is I have a plane to travel around privately. But in terms of what I eat, the clothes I wear, the books I read, the television I watch ... it's what I want to do in life."
Just returned from my first trip to China, mostly looking at the energy and robotics industries. Fascinating. Random observations, both business and general, below...
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