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I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.
Charlie Munger


I have never seen ordinary effort lead to extraordinary results.
Alexandr Wang


I am inclined to agree with Francis Galton in believing that education and environment produce only a small effect on the mind of anyone, and that most of our qualities are innate.
Charles Darwin


People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.
Naval Ravikant
It’s this idea that people don’t have ideas, that ideas have people, and that you don’t choose your passions, they choose you.
Jeff Bezos [Amazon and Blue Origin]


A small team of A-plus players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.
Steve Jobs


Use your gifts to help people.
Allan Peters [Designer]


You know who the best managers are. They’re the great individual contributors who never ever want to be a manager, but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as that.
Steve Jobs


Believe comes before ability.


Learning from history is a form of leverage.
Charlie Munger


Importance of developing your own curriculum.
Steven Spielberg


Teamwork is dependent on trusting the other folk to come through with their part without watching them all the time.
Steve Jobs


Fall in love with the process, not the outcome.


Excellence is the capacity to take pain.
Isadore Sharp – Four Seasons


Obsession is contagious.

He went to school on anybody.
Friend of Jeff Bezos

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci


Questions lead to more questions.
Curiosity is the compass.
Paul Graham


Life is hard for the man who thinks he can take a shortcut.
Les Schwab


The source of wisdom is pain.
Naval Ravikant


Almost everyone can thinking an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a product.
Henry Ford


Stress comes from ignoring things you should not ignore.
Jeff Bezos


You don’t find statues of committees.
David Ogilvy


The good ones know more.


Really smart thinkers are clear thinkers. They understand the basic pretty well.
Naval Ravicant

Unapologeticly invested in what you believe in most – yourself.
George Lucas


Innovation will come from people who are able to link beauty to engineering humanity to technology and poetry to processors.
Ada Lovelace


There is no security in life only opportunity.
Opportunity at the expense of security.


Willingness to bet heavily!
When the opportunity presents itself.
Charlie Munger


Taste is important
Build taste through years of practice.


It is better to be approximately right than exactly wrong.
John Maynard Keynes


Success tells you nothing. Failure is interesting – it’s part of making progress. You never learn from success, but you do learn from failure.
James Dyson


Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.
Steve Jobs


Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
Ernest Hemingway [On resilience and resourcefullness]

You never fail until you stop trying.
Albert Einstein


I know the worst conditions make the champion. 
Roddy Ricch – War Baby


If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Steve Jobs


Properly understood any new and better way of doing things is technology.
Peter Thiel

Never memorize something that you can look up.
Albert Einstein

We are always wrong but our goal is to be continously less wrong. Our goal is to be less wrong.
Elon Musk


Learning machines who refuse to quit are incredibly hard to beat. I constantly see people who rise is life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines. They go to bed everyday a little wiser than they were when they got up. And oh boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run a head of you.
Charlie Munger


You don’t learn the language from grammar but the grammer from the language.
Kato Lomb