Tag Archives: people
Margin of Safety
In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don’t give a damn about...
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Costco vs. Rockefeller Foundation
I believe Costco does more for civilization than the Rockefeller Foundation. I think it’s a better place.
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Very-high-IQ People
Very-high-IQ people can be completely useless. And many of them are.
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On Being Wrong
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Needing People
People who didn’t need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn’t need...
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Be Aggressive When It’s Time
Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it’s time.
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Making a Cart
I’d like to get four people who do cartwheels very good, and make a cart.
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Learning Machines
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they...
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What Great Minds Do
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
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Living a Happy Life
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Related Topics: goal, happy, happy life, life, live, people, things 
What Disturbs People
It isn’t events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgments about them.
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How to Get Some People to Stop Talking
Sometimes I just agree with people so that they can stop talking.
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Gravitation in Love
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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Getting Rid of People
I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don’t have any real knowledge.
Related Topics: always, answer, confidently, get rid of, knowledge, people, questions, real, try 
Take the Bus with Me
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take...
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Terrible Investors
A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they’ve got terrible temperaments. And that is why we...
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Give People Eulogies
Don’t just pay people compliments; give them living eulogies. Tell them exactly how great they are, in how many ways.
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Hiring Right
This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can...
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Maintain a Positive Focus
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.
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Master the Best
I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don’t believe in...
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Swimming Against the Current
We’re emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We’re not predicting the...
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People Without Problems
The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.
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Goals That Inspire
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals — that is, goals that do not inspire them.
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Tony Robbins on Creating a Quality Life
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
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How to Keep the Moochers in Your Life Away
“There’s danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, ‘My life is a little harder than it used...
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The Best Ideas Have To Win
If you wanna hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to be run by ideas,...
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Change the World for Better
Apple is about something more than that, Apple, at the core, its core value, is that we believe that people...
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Always Be Courteous
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be...
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