Quote of the Day - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
“Not only an endeavor – it was an obsession! I slept with it; I dreamt about it. Sometimes I would stay up all night thinking about what I would do the next day. If I didn’t need sleep, I would have done it twenty-four hours a day. At that point, it wasn’t the money that was motivating me. I was hooked on the game: on the challenge of trying to figure out the market.”
“The Enemy of the best is the good. If you’re always settling with what’s good, you’ll never be the best.”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left behind by those who hustle.”
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
“The market is a force bigger than any one trader. If you go against it, you will feel the pain. The traders who go with the tide are more free and easy. They don’t like the pain. They like themselves. They know there is no point in fighting the force of the market. They let go of their egos and admit that the market is greater than they are.”
“He who believes is strong; He who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”
Bill Gates Commencement Speech
Bill Gates recently gave a Commencement speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes; learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
“I didn’t get where I am by thinking about it or dreaming it. I got there by doing it.”
“If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.”
“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“Never delay in undertaking any work you have to do, for the first brief delay will lead to a second, more prolonged one, and the second to a third, still longer, and so on. Thus work begins too late and is not done in its proper time, or else is abandoned altogether, as something too burdensome. Having once tasted the pleasure of inaction, you begin to like and prefer it to action. In satisfying this desire, you will little by little form a habit of inaction and laziness, in which the passion for doing nothing will possess you to such an extent that you will cease even to see how incongruous and criminal it is; except perhaps when you’re weary of this laziness, and are eager to take up your work. Then you will see with shame how negligent you have been and how many necessary works you have neglected, for the same of the empty and useless ‘doing what you like’.
Scarcely perceptible at first, this negligence permeates everything and not only poisons the will, planting in it aversion to all kind of effort and all forms of spiritual doing and obedience, but also blinds the mind and prevents it from seeing all the folly and falsehood of the arguments which support this disposition of will…
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“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
“Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, stands a mighty ruler, an unknown sage - it is called the subconscious self; it dwells in your body, it is your body. There is more reason, sanity and intelligence in your body than in your best wisdom.”
“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”