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The goal of a business is to make money. The goal of a life is to avoid regret. These are often in conflict, and the resolution of that conflict is what separates a life well-lived from a merely profitable one.

Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money (2020)
1w ago

Every external fact to which you are indifferent is irrelevant to you, save in so far as it may be a sign of fact to which you are not indifferent. Only the facts to which you react emotionally have any intrinsic interest for you either of the practical or the theoretic sort.

2w ago

Looking back, adults in particular have a terrible habit of labeling as "good" what is merely convenient for them, of painting as "good" what is really just their standard for normal.

4w ago

The best thing a human can do is to help another human being know more. It's even better than making money.

1mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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