I got goodness, and I got mercy…and I shall not want…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *SW, JF*

The Warm-Up: 

“Transactions might make you rich but only relationships will make you wealthy.” ~Shane Parrish

The Core: 

“Adopt the pace of nature: Her secret is patience.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” ~Henry Ford

“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. That world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of people.” ~Charlie Munger

“The truth is, we are all surrounded by teachers. Every human being has a story to tell that can be instructive and helpful in your life. The Prophets Walk Among Us.” ~Rich Roll

“What these guys did in 16 games, it wouldn’t seem right to, I don’t know, for those to be broken in 17 games.” ~Cooper Kupp, on potentially setting multiple NFL receiving records this season

“You see [Ja Morant] blossoming in front of our eyes. Since college he’s been on this trajectory. As a basketball fan you cant wait to see what it’s like years going forward.” ~Kevin Durant on Ja Morant

“The single most important factor to success is the ability to make things happen. This requires determination, resourcefulness, focus, tenacity, confidence, a willingness to look like an idiot, and an ability to do the work when no one is watching.” ~Shane Parrish

“When we were looking to pursue control software deals 20 years ago, my VC friends would say ‘those co’s are old and will go out of business’ and my PE friends would say ‘tech is too risky.’ Don’t worry about the external validation—focus on the fundamentals of the business.” ~Orlando Bravo

“Social networking platforms are simply a tool to be used selectively and with a whole lot of patience. The key to long-term social networking success is to always remember there are real people using the technology. People like you and me, with messy, complicated, distracted lives.” ~J. Kelly Hoey, Build Your Dream Network

“Watch God. Watch his word. Meditate on it. Remember it. Play it in your heart. Watch God bring you out. Watch God do a miracle. Watch God give you a testimony. Watch God turn it around. Watch God use this very thing. Watch God. Stop watching the news for five minutes and watch God. God doesn’t watch the news. He is good news! He is glad tidings. He brings great joy. He watches over his flock by night. Thank you. Lord.” ~Steven Furtick

“I shall not want, I shall not want / Oh, my soul’s got a shepherd in the valley and I shall not want / I shall not want, I shall not want / ‘Cause my cup’s running over, running over and I shall not want / And I will lift my eyes to where my help comes from / And I won’t be afraid of the shadow / ‘Cause I’ve seen the sun / No, I will not stop, when the way gets hard / ‘Cause the green only grows in the valley / And that’s where You are…” ~Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music, Shall Not Want

“Combine Walmart, Disney, Netflix, Nike, Exxon Mobil, Coca-Cola, Comcast, Morgan Stanley, McDonald’s, AT&T, Goldman Sachs, Boeing, IBM and Ford. Apple is still worth more. Apple, the computer company that started in a California garage in 1976, is now worth $3 trillion. It became the first publicly traded company to ever reach the figure on Monday, when its stock briefly eclipsed $182.86 a share before closing at $182.01.” ~Jack Nicas, Apple Becomes First Company to Hit $3 Trillion Market Value

“What do value investors and energy companies have in common these days? They’re unloved at best and hated at worst. As a result, their destinies might be linked. Why? They’re both desperate — energy companies for capital, value investors for returns. This desperation comes from the fact that large pools of capital have exited both en masse, in large part for justifiable reasons – namely poor performance and/or environmental reasons. Yet, the irony is that this may result in a massive opportunity for both. Why? Scarcity of capital has historically been a major catalyst for strong future returns.” ~Ted Lamade, Be Curious

“Earn with your mind, not your time…Solve via iteration. Then get paid via repetition…Demonstrated judgement—credibility around the judgement—is so critical Warren Buffet wins here because he has massive credibility. He’s been highly accountable. He’s been right over and over in the public domain. He’s built a reputation for very high integrity, so you can trust him. People will throw infinite leverage behind him because of his judgement. Nobody asks him how hard he works. Nobody asks him when he wakes up or when he goes to sleep. They’re like, ‘Warren just do your thing.’” ~Naval Ravikant in The Alamanack of Naval Ravikant, ~Eric Jorgenson

“It took a few years for me to truly understand this, but public interest makes you feel known, loved, and accepted in only the most superficial ways. As an isolated ideal, separate from its implications of unparalleled talent, which are only marginally borne out, it is spiritually empty. A Faustian bargain. This is the true irony of fame: If you’re mentally well enough to handle its consequences, you don’t need its spoils. I’ve found similar paradoxes in all of the hollow status-markers I’ve managed to claim over the last five years. And slowly these disappointments are reconstructing my ambitions to far more pleasant, accessible, perhaps already-reached goals. Ideal self inches toward real self.” ~Haley Nahman, What I’m Telling Myself

Last Set:

“We don’t cry, we endure. We don’t complain, we adapt. We don’t blame others, we take ultimate responsibility for our success & our failures. In 2022 we take back control of our lives. No more tears, no more excuses, just Hard & God’s work. Mentality over Everything.” ~@mentality

Food For Thought:

“So finding businesses like that that have these great opportunities. And you can see how it works on a whiteboard, but the problem with the whiteboard is the stick people aren’t the same as the humans. So the humans never behave like the stick people on the whiteboard. But ultimately we’ve got experience, resources, knowledge, and for us, it’s finding those businesses and keep growing with them. We’ve done some stuff in Europe, but I want to keep growing in Europe, I want to keep growing in the US. I also am not highly motivated to go to places that are far flung, just because you can only manage so many things. And I think everything’s local in the end. And if you don’t have a real local presence...It’s why when anyone has said, well, why don’t you go buy into China right now? China’s depressed, or China’s stock prices are down, and it’s just like, I don’t have any edge. And if I don’t have an edge, then I don’t know why I’m doing it. Ultimately, if you’re not local in what you’re doing, or you don’t have a local presence that you trust, I think it’s hard to do.” ~Todd Boehly – The Next Berkshire Hathaway at Eldridge (EP. 223) of Capital Allocators w/ Ted Seides

Food For Thought II:

“Teams throughout sports should take a hard look at what happened in Tampa. It is a prime example of what happens when, consciously or subconsciously, teams view people through the prism of what they do on the field. In 15 games as a Buc, Brown caught 87 passes for 1,008 yards and eight touchdowns. That success added fuel to the illusion that Tampa Bay was right about him. In fact, every catch just pushed him closer to an implosion, because it tilted the dynamics of the relationship. In the beginning, Brown needed the Bucs. The better he played, the more he believed the Bucs needed him.” ~Michael Rosenberg, There Was Never Any Redemption Story in Antonio Brown

“I know we were losing to the Jets and that was frustrating for all of us. But I could not make football plays on that ankle. Yes, I walked off the field. But there’s a major difference between launching from the line and taking hits, compared to jogging off the field with a rush of emotions going through your mind. I am reflecting on my reaction, but there was a trigger. The trigger was someone telling me that I’m not allowed to feel pain. I acknowledge my past. But my past does not make me a second class citizen. My past does not forfeit my right to be heard when I am in pain…First they cut me. Now they cage me. Instead of asking how I felt or getting to the bottom of it, the team texted my camp promoting a totally false narrative that I randomly acted out without any explanation. They even told us in writing ‘don’t spin this’ any other way. I have stress, I have things I need to work on. But the worst part of this has been the Bucs’ repeated effort to portray this as a random outburst. They are telling people that first I walked off, then I was cut. No. No. No. I was cut first and then I went home. They threw me out like an animal and I refused to wear their brand on my body, so I took my jersey off.” ~Jenna Laine, Antonio Brown releases lengthy statement, tells his side of story days after leaving Tampa Bay Buccaneers game

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