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


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

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

Heraclitus


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]


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 them.
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 memorise 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


The person that always learns the most is the teacher.


Practice what you preach.


Fix what bugs you.


There’s a rule that they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it’s worth doing to excess.
Edwin Land


You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life. It just happens, maybe it’s random, maybe it’s fate – either way you can’t plan for it. But you wanna recognise when it happens and have the courage and clarity of mind to grab on to it.
Steve Jobs


Life shrinks and expands on the proportion of your willingness to take risks and try new things.
Gary Vaynerchuk


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


If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
Steve Jobs


Actions expresses priorities.
Mahatma Gandhi 02.02.2016


The secret of change is to focus all the energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates 27.01.2018


Either be the first or be the best.
26.01.2018


Judge a man by his questions not by his answers.
Voltair 30.01.2018


The best time to invest was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
31.01.2018


If you live everyday as it was your last, one day you will be right. 33 years 
Remember that i will be dead soon, helped me to make the big choices in life. Death ist the single best invention of life. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Stay hungry stay foolish.
Steve Jobs 08.03.2016


You never fail, until you stop trying.
Albert Einstein


And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.
Steve Jobs


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. 
Aristotle


Motivation gets you started, habit keeps you going, discipline gets you succeed.


Never memorize something, that you can look up.
Albert Einstein


Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
Steve Jobs


You never know, what you don’t know.


Quality is remembered long after price has been forgotten.


Ideas are fragile.


The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius


Talent is just continued interest.


If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Steve Jobs 09.09.2019


Be a man of your word.
28.07.2019


A lot of people think we are creatures of habit but we’re not. We are creatures of environment.
Roger Hamilton 13.07.2019


The man who says he can and the man who says he can’t are both correct.
Henry Ford 02.07.2019


Imagination is better than knowledge.
Albert Einstein 28.04.2019


Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
Mark Twain 31.01.2017


Bending the universe to their will.
Steve Jobs