“ ‘What do you do for a living?’  I do my best.” Love that! [@owch]…Walk Good. 28all. Eya. *MF*

The Warm-Up: 

“You cannot make someone love you by giving them more of something they do not appreciate.” ~Ankur Warikoo

The Core: 

“Apologize for your mistakes, not your feelings.” ~Anonymous

“Stop trying to do everything at once. Focus, then be patient.” ~Orange Book

“Work with people you admire and like. Life’s ultimate privilege.” ~Tyler Hogge

“Don’t mistake applause for truth. People will cheer for many things. Keep your inner compass.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“Be quiet, work hard, and stay healthy. It’s not ambition or skill that is going to set you apart but sanity.” ~Ryan Holiday

“Endless bad news you can’t look away from amid slow compounding improvements you barely notice.” ~Morgan Housel

“The best founders spend most of their time with customers :: the best VCs spend most of their time with founders.” ~Nihal Mehta

“Maturity is when you stop asking people why they don’t call or text you anymore. You just notice the change and accept it, no drama, no fights. You just walk away with a smile.” ~Anonymous

“Life rewards courage. The person who is brave enough to bet on something or someone—as long as they avoid irreversible mistakes like running out of cash or going to jail—is in a position to win.” ~James Clear

“You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.” ~Robert Greene

“Game designer Jane McGonigal once said, ‘I’ve learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight.’ You only get that deep appreciation of what never changes when you engage with history.” ~Morgan Housel, Engaging With History

“Connections often break under the weight of unresolved trauma and poor communication. Old hurt creates distance between partners, and it makes it hard to see each other clearly. Without selfless listening and vocalizing your vulnerability, it will be hard to deepen the connection.” ~Yung Pubelo

“I’d like to say that [finding the deals, negotiating the deals, financing the deals, adding value to the deals] are relevant, and to some extent they probably are. If it had to make a determination, I would say that it starts with some kind of innate recognition of what kind of deal was worth pursuing. I had a banker in the ‘80s who had an orange sign on his desk that said. ‘Fastest no in the west.’ I’ll never forget that, because more than anything else, what I’m really good at is not spending time on something that won’t lead to fruition.” ~Sam Zell in How To Invest, Masters On The Craft by David M. Rubenstein

Last Set:

“Sometimes people pretend you’re a bad person, so they don’t feel guilty for how they treated you.” ~Anonymous

Food For Thought:

“To me, the point of paying attention to history is not the specific details of certain events, which are always random and never repeat; it’s the big-picture behaviors that reoccur in different eras, generations, and societies. People were dealing with greed and fear 100 years ago the same way they’re dealing with now and will be 100 years in the future. The more you see a behavior throughout history, the more you realize how ingrained it is in human behavior, which makes you more confident that it’ll be part of our future. It’s the only way to forecast with accuracy.” ~Morgan Housel, Engaging With History

Food For Thought II:

“It’s a paradox to say that one ought to hold cash, but I think one must. What you want, I say, is flexibility in the face of uncertainty and risk and possible protracted adversity….What you want is the flexibility to avail yourself of the gifts of a bear market, not just the pain. And the gift of a bear market is value….What happens in a bear market is that everything goes down. And with cash—which, to be sure, you’re losing some of to the scourge of inflation; but with cash you get a chance to be tactical and to keep your courage up. You can watch things take shape in a way that will be advantageous to the person who can avail himself or herself of the gift of value.” ~Jim Grant

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