Astrojoe

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[jada.p @jada3_p]

Planting seeds in silence

[Astrojoe @astrojoe_]

Did that out of love. Won’t count no favors

[Astrojoe @astrojoe_]

Always a next bar to clear.
Thank God for that privilege

[Astrojoe @astrojoe_]

Multiple versions of self. And the non-reactive one always takes the cake

[Kikuyu Pipes @DrKanyuira]

Kwani ulikua umeze mzima mzima kama python?

[m̃ @hexesandspell]

Alignment is such a strange flex because nobody can see what suddenly makes sense to you.

[Ian Jakovan Dunlap @_masterinvestor]

Master the craft every single day in silence. The market always rewards the reps you put in when nobody was watching.

[New Singaporean🇰🇪🏇🏿 @NewSingaporean_]

At 28, Dangote was putting full-page adverts in a national newspaper wishing New Year's Greetings to the President of Nigeria and to the friends and "numerous" customers of Dangote Group. For Alhaji, the grind has been constant🎯

[George Heaton @geoheaton]

The mentality of a winner:

You always feel like things aren’t going good enough,
You always feel like you could have done it better,
You’ll always feel like you’re behind.

[𝐿 @Lipgloss_3]

With grace. With hope. With kindness.

[Mbabz @Kalasinga_]

I usually wonder what the reason for some of these relocations is. For instance, this one.

Did they ask the elephant if he had a wife and children?

[Ian Jakovan Dunlap @_masterinvestor]

When you’ve mastered technicals, you don’t care about anyone else’s analysis.

[zellie @zellieimani]

James Baldwin

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

So basically, the only place where there are no ads is books.

[Big Brain Business @BigBrainBizness]

Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO of Citadel, on why every CEO is a salesperson whether they like it or not:

When the man who backed Ken out of college retired from Chicago, he told Ken he could have whatever he wanted from his office.

Ken took a plaque that probably cost $9.99.

"That plaque said, 'If we're all going to eat, someone's got to sell.' And that's the story of being an entrepreneur or being a CEO."

The title on the door doesn't get you out of the work. Ken runs through the list of people a CEO has to convince:

"Every CEO, I'll tell you what, they're a salesperson. They got to sell a venture capital firm. They got to sell a customer. They have to sell an employee. They got to make sure that with the government that they sell like what we do, we do right. We dot the i's, cross the t's, we follow the regulations. You are always selling."

Then comes the part most people don't want to hear:

"And if you don't like to sell, here's my advice. Get over it."

That's not a natural salesman talking. Ken is blunt about it: "I had no interest in selling when I was 20 years old."

The skill got built by crossing the world dozens of times and eating the rejection that came with it.

He offers 1994 in Switzerland as the case study — two meetings, one day.

The first was lunch:

"I show up for lunch and the guy I meet with, he goes, 'You're not John Griffin.' I said, 'No, I'm Ken Griffin.' He goes, 'I thought you were John Griffin from Fenchurch. I need to go.' Oh great. I just flew all the way to Switzerland to have my lunch walk out of me."

The second meeting, later that same day, went worse. He was raising money for convertible bond arbitrage — and as he puts it, "in '94 that was a tough space to be in."

He describes the scene:

"I'm in this beautiful office in Switzerland. This guy smoking this cigar and this beautiful sofa and his beautiful office. 'So sad. Such a bright young man. So picked the wrong career.' What a great day I'm having."

That was Geneva. A transatlantic flight, a lunch partner who left before the food arrived, and a cigar-smoking investor delivering a eulogy for his career.

Ken's conclusion is a single sentence:

"You just got to play through these moments."

[Ian Jakovan Dunlap @_masterinvestor]

Save your opinion
Stack up the equities.

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Listening to your impostor syndrome is almost
the nastiest bad habit.

[Reece Wabara @ReeceWabara]

You win by sticking with one thing while everyone else keeps starting over

[Reece Wabara @ReeceWabara]

When they tell you it can’t be done, make sure they watch you do it

[Uncle Ras D'artte @Dartte__45]

Went back home last week after 2 years, found my father with a 2 year old.
Fair play to him.

The lady I hired to help out occasionally with domestic work is now my mom, now I don't have to pay her for her labor.