Celebrating Your Way of Life
As I continued through Cicero’s pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.
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Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get
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I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could
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Boating Enthusiasts
If you boat a lot, you’re known as a boating enthusiast. I like to boat, but I just don’t want
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If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status
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It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn’t compete with six people in blue
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Our ideas are so simple that people keep asking us for mysteries when all we have are the most elementary
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This is why organizations solicit public pledges. Hell, it’s the reason for the marriage ceremony.
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No man is fit to hold office who isn’t perfectly willing to leave it at any time.
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A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.
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Go After New Ideas
Never let go of your appetite to go after new ideas, new experiences, and new adventures.
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In my life there are not that many questions I can’t properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and
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I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.
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I find it quite useful to think of a free market economy — or partly free market economy — as
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I don’t think our successors will be as good as Warren at capital allocation.
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Your Indomitable Will
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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Here’s Why You Want to Stick with Love
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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An investment decision in the common stock of a company frequently involves a whole lot of factors interacting.
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It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it’s an immensely strong business.
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Apple is built on refugees from other companies. These are the extremely bright individual contributors who were troublemakers at other
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How to Solve Your Problems
The best way to solve any problem is to remove the cause.
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Gigantic macroeconomic predictions are something I’ve never made any money on, and neither has Warren.
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Any year that passes in which you don’t destroy one of your best loved ideas is a wasted year.
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I’ve been amazed by the growth and cost of our float. It’s wonderful to generate billions of dollars of float
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Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.
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Benjamin Franklin was able to make the contribution he did because he had [financial] freedom.
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I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA [earnings], you should substitute the word “bullshit” earnings.
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We don’t give a damn about lumpy results. Everyone else is trying to please Wall Street. This is not a
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Finally Jobs proposed Apple Computer: “I was on one of my fruitarian diets,” he explained. “I had just come back
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Like Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferraris — I wanted the independence.
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It is easy to have fair compensation systems, but about half of companies have grossly unfair systems in which the
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Crowd folly, the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and
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Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures — they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it’s much
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You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes
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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.
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