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The best answer to anger is silence. #MarcusAurelius.28all. Eya. *JB* The Warm-Up:
“Those who know how to make connections, to connect the dots, ideas and people will be those who know how to surf on the wave of change that is ahead.” ~Minter Dial, You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader The Core: “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” ~Adam Smith “A bad system will beat a good person every time.” ~W. Edwards Deming “The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.” ~Robert Greene “The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject.” ~Marcus Aurelius “Karma is just you, repeating your patterns, virtues, and flaws until you finally get what you deserve.” ~Naval Ravikant “Calling yourself a VC but investing solely based on who else is in should be considered a form of false advertising.” ~Hadley “In retrospect, what I experienced as anxiety as a young man was actually a perfectly healthy drive to make a place for myself in the world.” ~Moses Kagan “Just like start-ups, and life in general I suppose, the job of the investor is to stay in the game long enough for the tailwinds to come your way.” ~Micah Rosenbloom “Surround yourself with people who make you want to be better. Not because they tell you to, but because their actions make you realize what’s possible.” ~Dan Koe “First you look like an idiot to everyone else while you try to figure it out. Then, everyone else looks like idiots for ever doubting you would. Seasons.” ~Alex Hormozi “People take things personally, that are not personal at all. Not everything is a slight or even about you…It’s usually about *them.* Let them carry it, and move along.” ~Dr. Julie Gurner “Personal development should start from a space of self-acceptance. Stop thinking of self-improvement as an urgent quest to ‘fix’ yourself. Start thinking of self-improvement as an opportunity to become an even better version of the incredible person you already are.” ~Michell C Clark “Feeling nervous doesn’t mean you’re unprepared. It means you care about something beyond your control. Anxiety is a caricature artist. It magnifies flaws and minimizes strengths. Gaining confidence is not about denying what could wrong. It’s about recognizing what might go right.” ~Adam Grant “I pulled the plug because I’ve seen where that was ‘bout to go / They wanted blood, they wanted clicks to make they pockets grow / They see this fire in my pen and think I’m dodgin’ smoke / I wouldn’t have lost a battle, dawg, I woulda lost a bro / I woulda gained a foe, and all for what? Just to attain some mo’ / Props from strangers that don’t got a clue what I been aimin’ for?...” ~J. Cole, Port Antonio “Founders should be careful of spending too much time around VCs when ideating or figuring out [what] to do next. Most VCs drastically over-intellectualize company building while underrating how much of winning isn’t strategy but brute force warfare. Hand-to-hand combat. Especially true if the investor has never built something before themselves. And being an APM at Google does not count as having built something. Finding the gap in a market map want yield[s] a great product, happy customers, insights, or unfair advantages. There is value you can get from talking to select investors. But be careful of the weight of time spent here.” ~Andrew Rea Last Set: “Real power is basically the ability to change something if you want to change it. It’s the ability to make change happen. Real power is unlimited—we don’t need to fight over it because there is plenty to go around. And the great thing about real power is our ability to create it. Real power doesn’t force us to take it away from others—it’s something we create and build with others.” ~Brené Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame Food For Thought:
“I think that people our age don’t have a full enough appreciation for what Michael Milken both built and set into effect in terms of his creation—high-yield securities—which spawned the ability for private equity to exist at the speed, size, and scale that it is today. And we always get disappointed when we interview younger people and we ask about that time period, and they look at us blankly. And I think a lot of the thoughtfulness of that era—and obviously there were excesses too—but a lot of the thoughtfulness is lost amongst people in their thirties and forties today. And I think it’s important to reread that and appreciate it. And it’s inspiring. You had people in that book who were our age, who built some of the most incredible, successful companies on earth when they were even less experienced than we were at the time, with far less of a roadmap. We stand on the shoulders of those giants and benefit from that. They didn’t have that.” ~Matt Perelman, The Art of Franchise Investingon Invest Like the Best w/ Patrick O’Shaughnessy
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