“The graveyards are full of men who once thought themselves indispensable.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Difficult vs unpleasant issues. The whole idea is that difficult issues require lots of attention, lots of consideration, more fact gathering and analysis. Unpleasant, you kind of know the answer, you just don’t want to deal with it, so you pretend it’s difficult when it isn’t difficult. It’s just unpleasant.”
Robert K. Steel
“Don’t wrestle with pigs. You will both get very dirty. Trouble is, the pig will enjoy it.”
Charlie Munger
“Marrying for money probably isn’t a very good idea under any circumstances, but if you’re already rich it’s crazy.”
Warren Buffett
“Making money is like putting gas in the car. You know you need to do it, but life is not a tour of gas stations.”
Tim O’Reilly
“My mom said to me, ‘You know, sweetheart, one day you should settle down and marry a rich man,’ and I said, ‘Mom, I am a rich man.’”
Cher
“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
Charles Goodhart
“I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.”
George W. Bush
“Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you people cheer.”
Rick and Morty
“The cowards never started, and the weak died along the way — that leaves us.”
Phil Knight