Ten heads of Rāvana in this era are sensational news, endless scrolling, xxx, excessive shopping, fast food, movie industry, loud motivational speakers, muscle building, credentialism and populism.
My farmer friend told me one mistake he did was when he tried to compete in the market and lost some of his inner peace. He took the game too seriously. Let them enjoy their piece too. Stay creative, you will find many ways to provide for your family.
Public speaking is hard, because mind initiates too many parallel processes. Train the mind to calm down, reduce number of mental processes, free up bandwidth and increase the presence in the moment.
Quitting your clock-in/clock-out job to start a company does not make you independent. It shifts your dependency from a boss to customers and the market. As long as you can tolerate the dependency thats what matters.
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.
- Warren Buffett, BHSL 2004
Now a little success, soon you will fall down, soon you will be overthrown. Because you have got a start, you think you are quite a merchant; look out, or you will lose your head — go steady.
- John D. Rockfeller, The Difficult Art of Getting, CHAPTER II, RRME
In the next 53 years our shares (and others) will experience declines resembling those in the table. No one can tell you when these will happen. The light can at any time go from green to red without pausing at yellow.
- Warren Buffett, BHSL 2017/ Investments