If you have optionality, you don’t have much need for what is commonly called intelligence, knowledge, insight, skills, and these complicated things that take
Quotes
Katherine Hepburn
Question: What is life about? Hepburn: It’s about working hard and loving someone. Oh, and having fun. And, if you’re lucky, you keep your
Seneca, Roman philosopher
Wealth is the slave of the wise man and master of the fool.
Tumber founder Evan Karp
“profitabiliity has never been a particularly important milestone” “I have a very rudimentary understanding of how tumbler actually works these days” “”I’m not super
For now, they’re neither. The designer of 432 Park Avenue is Rafael Viñoly, who has earned unhappy fame as the creator of a curving,
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My idea of the modern stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
Honor and risk
A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion – in other words, the amount of downside he
Alfonso Cuaron
My films are not like my babies. My films are like ex-wives; I loved them so much, they gave me so much, I gave
Friedrich Schiller
We have failed to recognize our one great asset: time. A conscientous use of it could make us into something quite amazing.
Georges Simenon
The man who defined the term quantity over quality with his life, writing 425 books including 200 works of pulp fiction under 16 different