Your confidence increases when you know you move with good intentions, when you know you keep your heart pure, when you know you’re trying your best. It’s one of the reasons why confidence makes you beautiful
If we could learn to stop ignoring what is right with in front of us, our anxiety would totally evaporate into nothingness and we would experience unbelievable bliss.
Timeless:
Science, math, philosophy, rhetoric. First principles. Creating art & business. Family & lifelong friends. Habits to calm mind & body.
Temporary:
Politics, news, entertainment. Memorizing facts. Hourly work. Transactional relationships. Drugs & doctors for mind & body.
People will tolerate a bit of arrogance if you are talented and still young; but once you get older, you understand that you could have attracted many more opportunities if you had had the intelligence to learn humility earlier in life.
When you are young, you think that you would stop working as soon as you made a certain amount of money,
then, later in life, you realize that freedom without meaningful purpose is actually torture.
“But government control of the media undermines Lincoln's logic, because it prevents citizens from realising the truth…By manufacturing a never-ending stream of crises, a corrupt oligarchy can prolong its rule indefinitely.”
Does this sound familiar?
Before you talk - Consider
Before you pray - Believe
Before you speak - Listen
Before you spend - Earn
Before you react - Think
Before you play - Work
Before you take - Give
Before you run- Walk
Before you quit - Try
Before you die - Live
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Buffet nuggets:
1.Think of equity investing as buying businesses in their entirety, not as buying stocks.
2.Look to invest in businesses which invest their capital conservatively and which seek to exist forever.
3.Avoid impatient people and impatient companies.
People with “founder mentality” can’t rest once a problem or opportunity is identified. They take on personal responsibility without complaint, learn & recruit skills as needed, and deliver results despite politics. There is unlimited global demand for founder mentality.
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It’s surprisingly easy to make profits at expense of your customer's health and wealth.
It’s painfully hard to make profits when you’re committed to increasing your customer's health or wealth.