Category: book
Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson
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Open Veins of Latin America : Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
Having spent years in this region I needed a history lesson, an interesting read about Latam’s history of exploitation, and how its wealth was drained for centuries. While insightful, it feels like it quickly goes into ideology, making it feel more like a passionate argument than a purely historical account. Memorable quotes “This observation helps […]
How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
Memorable quotes The second intervention – in many respects, a second ‘stage’ – is to direct investment and entrepreneurs towards manufacturing. This is because manufacturing industry makes the most effective use of the limited productive skills of the workforce of a developing economy, as workers begin to migrate out of agriculture” “Finally, interventions in […]
Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention by Johann Hari
Memorable quotes “It becomes exhausting.” More importantly, Sune said, “what we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions…. Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there’s no time to reach depth. Depth connected to your work in relationships also […]
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Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World by Graham Allison
Memorable quotes 1. China faces enormous economic problems—a disparity in income between the rich coastal cities and the inland provinces, and in income within the coastal cities. They have got to watch that carefully or they might get severe discontent and civil disorder 2. Americans have a can-do approach to life: everything can be broken […]
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
Finally decided to read one of the most-sold management books of all times. Memorable quotes In no case do we have a company that just happened to be sitting on the nose cone of a rocket when it took off. Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter […]
Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times by Dusan Djukich
A leader demonstrates his commitment to get to B by his willingness to be “who he needs to be” and do “whatever it takes in the form of necessary required actons” to get to B. The world said conform, the world said settle for less, the world said compromise and no one will know… […]
The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins
People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams by Jono Bacon
Memorable quotes This reality is producing conditions like never before for people across the globe to collaborate, share information, and build new things. Innovation is no longer just happening in labs If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. This delicious cocktail of technology, connectivity, and people […]
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 […]
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 […]