Why Go to School?
If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.
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Don’t Micromanage Yourself
If you try to micromanage yourself all you’re going to do is make yourself miserable.
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Get Rich Schemes
If you see a get rich quick scheme, that’s someone else trying to get rich off of you.
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Hey, Lighten Up
Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously.
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Live in the Moment
I don’t plan. I’m not a planner. I prefer to live in the moment and be free and to flow
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Be Irrationally Passionate
The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.
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What You Should Be Doing
People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.
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Multiple Fuzzy Desires
The problem happens when we have multiple desires. When we have fuzzy desires.
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It’s Easy to Avoid Conflict
The first rule of handling conflict is don’t hang around people who are constantly engaging in conflict.
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Entrepreneurial Success Factor
Good entrepreneurs don’t fail because they stay at it.
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Peace Through Stoicism
A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.
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Starting a Company
It’s never been easier to start a company. It’s never been harder to build one.
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Happiness is a Skill
Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.
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Break Bad Habits
The power to make and break habits and learning how to do that is really important.
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Make Your Own Luck
You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.
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Life is Short: Be Happy
This is such a short and precious life that it’s really important that you don’t spend it being unhappy.
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Folly and Stupidity
I’ve seen so much folly and stupidity on the part of our major philanthropic groups, including the World Bank. I
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Loneliness is a Killer
In terms of mortality, loneliness is a killer.
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Don’t Scorn a Cat
Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these.
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Everyone Drinks Water
My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water.
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We Just Feel
But that is the way we are made: we don’t reason, where we feel; we just feel.
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A Battle of Wits
Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
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Forbidden Fruits
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
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Know Your Loyalties
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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The Source of All Humor
The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
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Fear-filled Worship
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
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Honesty: The Lost Art
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
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Run from Cruelty
Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
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In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense you’ve just described hell.
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Fulfill Your Desires
Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
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Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.
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The average result has to be the average result. By definition, everybody can’t beat the market.
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Read Graphs Correctly
If I am reading this graph correctly—I’d be very surprised.
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A Perfectly Wonderful Evening
I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.
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Don’t Miss Your Sleep
I haven’t slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
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Quickly identify mistakes and take action.
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Decide Where You Belong
I don’t belong to an organized political party. I’m a Democrat.
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What’s on Your Other Hand?
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
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Intrinsic Value
I like the stocks of both Berkshire and Wesco to trade within hailing distance of what we think of as
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Be a Better Public Speaker
If I could just say a few words… I’d be a better public speaker.
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Rapid Destruction of Your Ideas
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is
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