Category: Notes

The amateur duffer seldom beats his opponent, but he beats himself all the time. The victor in this game of tennis gets a higher score than the opponent, but he gets that higher score because his opponent is losing even more points.

– Charles D. Ellis

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

– Steve Jobs

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. There must be some wisdom in the folk saying, ‘It’s the strong swimmers who drown.’

– Charlie Munger

Those who predict the future we call futurists. Those who know when the future will happen we call billionaires.

– Horace Dediu

There is no point in being confident and having a small position.

– George Soros

One should not dream of becoming something, one should dream of doing something.

– Narendra Modi

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

– Herbert A. Simon

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

– Marcus Aurelius

Disruption is the art of identifying which parts of the past are no longer relevant to the future, and exploiting that delta at all costs.

– Aaron Levie