Memorable quotes “How many of you have received an honest, straight-between-the-eyes feedback session in the last year, where you came out knowing exactly what you have to do to improve and where you stand in the organization?” On a good day, I get 20 percent of the hands up. Most of the time, it is […]
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
Memorable quotes The first is ignorance–we may err because science has given us only a partial understanding of the world and how it works. There are skyscrapers we do not yet know how to build, snowstorms we cannot predict, heart attacks we still haven’t learned how to stop. The second type of failure the philosophers […]
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Memorable quotes Learn something, and then it’s time to leave. So my new, simple, and regular life began. I got up before five a.m. and went to bed before ten p.m. I’m struck by how, except when you’re young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up […]
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
Memorable quotes In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if […]
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
Memorable quotes “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time—literally—substantial and rapidly growing […]
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez
Memorable quotes To paraphrase the very quotable Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, in the future there will be two types of jobs: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do. Don’t believe me? Think your idea is worth something? Go and try to sell it, […]
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newpot
Memorable quotes In our current moment, smartphones have reshaped people’s experience of the world by providing an always-present connection to a humming matrix of chatter and distraction. Increasingly, they dictate how we behave and how we feel, and somehow coerce us to use them more than we think is healthy, often at the expense of […]
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
Memorable quotes Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything. Ultimately, I don’t determine whether I arrive at the desired professional destination. Too many variables are […]
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by Scott Peck
Memorable quotes What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems constructively that I call discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification acceptance of responsibility dedication to truth balancing Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to […]
Rich Dad’s Retire Young, Retire Rich by Robert Kiyosaki
Memorable quotes That is why so many people say, “When I retire, my income will go down. ” In other words, they are saying, “I plan on working hard all my life and then I will become poorer after I retire. ” Tat may have been an okay plan in the Industrial Age, but that […]
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason
Memorable quotes Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. Enjoy life while you are here. Do not overstrain or try to save too much. If one-tenth of all you earn is as much as you can comfortably keep, be content to keep this portion. Live otherwise according to […]
The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
Memorable quotes What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. But in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Don Juan slowly evolved from the masculine adventurer to a more feminized version: a man who lived only for women. This evolution came […]
Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Memorable quotes In contrast, humankind ascended to the top so quickly that the ecosystem was not given time to adjust. Moreover, humans themselves failed to adjust. Most top predators of the planet are majestic creatures. Millions of years of dominion have filled them with self-confidence. Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator […]
Titan, The Life of John D Rockefeller by Ron Chernow
Discipline was harsh and exacting: When students misbehaved, the teacher menacingly held a slate over their heads. If Rockefeller didn’t excel in class, it might have been in part because he lacked the bright boy’s exhibitionism, the yearning for gold stars; always inner-directed and indifferent to the approval of others, he was therefore free of […]
The Millionaire Next Door by Ph.D. Thomas J. Stanley; Ph.D. William D. Danko
Even most multimillionaires in America don’t live in expensive homes. I recently tabulated the 2007 IRS estate data (the latest data available) for those decedents with an estate valued at $3.5 million or more. I estimated that the median market value of a decedent’s home was $469,021, or less than 10 percent of their median […]
Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
A good book by blogger and author Mark Manson, he argues for a counterintuitive approach to living a good life. His view is that life’s struggle gives it meaning – and that mindless positivity of typical self-help books is neither practical or helpful. Similar to Marcus Aurelius “circle of influence” – Mark highlights the importance […]