Quote of the Day - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
“If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.”
“The more you give, the more you gain. The universe works in a strange and mysterious way.”
“One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first rate performance to excellence”
“Don’t let your ears hear what your eyes didn’t see, and don’t let your mouth say what your heart doesn’t feel.”
“How the hell could a person enjoy being awakened at 6:30AM, by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
“We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.”
“When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.”
“And men should know that from nothing else but from the brain come joy, laughter, jests, and sorrows, griefs, despondency and lamentations. And by this… we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and we see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what sweet and what unsavory… and by the same organ we become mad and delirious and fears and terrors assail us.”
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crack-pot’ than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.”
“Conquer your fears and you’ll be amazed at how awesome your life can become.”
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
“Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny”
“If you want to know everything about the market, go to the beach. Push and pull your hands with the waves. Some are bigger waves, some are smaller. But if you try to push the wave out when it’s coming in, it’ll never happen. The market is always right.”
“Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.”
“I don’t judge success, I celebrate it. I think success has to do with finding and following one’s calling regardless of financial gain.”