We are always getting ready to live, but never living. The object of living is life itself, and yet we continually sacrifice it to something beyond.
1w ago
We are all of us the worse for too much solitude. A man who shuts himself up from his kind becomes at last unfit for society; he acquires a hundred habits and opinions incompatible with life among men, and the cure for this evil is not to be found in the society of fools, but in that of the wise.
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1w ago
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
1w ago
The best way to get smart is to try to be a little smarter than you were the day before. And the way to do that is to recognize how much you don't know.
3w ago
The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument, and it requires to be tuned up and put in order before it can produce harmonious results.
4w ago
The best way to get smart is to try to be a little smarter than you were the day before. But the way to get rich is to try to be a little richer than you were the day before.
4w ago
The best way to get what you want is to deserve what you want. It's as simple as that.
1mo ago
The best investment is in yourself. But once you've bought yourself, you need to think about what produces the best return on that investment. And the answer is usually a business where you have some advantage—whether it's a better mousetrap, or better access, or better understanding of the customer.
1mo ago
When people say they want to do something but are too busy, there is almost always something else standing in their way. This is the root of procrastination. At its core, you are waiting for some external force to change—like your endless to-do list magically disappearing, or your calendar suddenly opening up—rather than making a change in your actions, which is hard.
1mo ago
The best investment is in yourself. The second best is usually in a business that does something you don't understand, because then you're forced to think independently.
1mo ago
The best investment is in yourself, but the second-best is often in businesses where you can understand what they do and where they're going better than the market does.
2mo ago
These books force you to think critically about your own time and the future we're building together.
2mo ago
The best investment you can make is in yourself. But most people won't because it's not tangible—you can't point to it on a balance sheet. Yet it compounds faster than any stock.
2mo ago
The best investment you can make is in yourself. But most people won't because it's the one thing they can't see the results from immediately.
2mo ago
The best investment you can make is in yourself. But most people won't because it's not a leveraged bet, and you can't borrow money to do it.
2mo ago
about its quiet power to dislodge the lump of blame from the thorax of time and fill the lung of life with the oxygen of the possible, about how you bless your own life when you forgive your mother, forgive your father, forgive the person for whom your love was not enough, forgive the person for whom your love was too much, forgive yourself, over and over and over.
2mo ago
The best investment you can make is in yourself. But most people won't because it requires delayed gratification—you must become a student of your own ignorance.
3mo ago
The best investment you can make is in yourself. But very few people do it, because it's unglamorous and requires a lot of discipline.
3mo ago
The best way to get what you want is to deserve what you want. It's as simple as that. You deserve to get what you want if you can argue for it.
3mo ago
I decided at age 13 that I would read books to attain wisdom—and I've kept it up ever since. Maybe that sounds absurd when mentioned so baldly. So go ahead and laugh if you want. But here's the strange thing. I got all those other benefits—job skills, entertainment, etc.—along the way.
3mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
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