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Favorite Quotes
If sacrifice has a hint of regret, then it's not a sacrifice. It's misery.
Munishwer Chander Chadha
It is in the art of silence, patience, and virtuous conduct during the darkest hours, that the keys to unraveling the unsolvable mysteries lie.
Munishwer Chander Chadha
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig Beethoven
Spartans did not ask ‘How many are the enemies?’ but ‘Where are they?’
Plutarch
For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.
Leonhard Euler
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great
Never underestimate the power of the last man standing.
Munishwer Chander Chadha
Whoever fights monsters should take care that he does not become a monster himself. For if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.
David Gemmell
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
Charlie Munger
My composure never wavered, even in the face of losing everything else.
Munishwer Chander Chadha
How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
John D. Rockefeller
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long time.
Charlie Munger
Don't practice your art, but force your way into its secrets.
Ludwig Beethoven
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Reimann Hypothesis been proven?
David Hilbert
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Albert Einstein
May God protect me from friends and I'll deal with the enemies myself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing takes place in this world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.
Leonhard Euler
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Albert Einstein
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around them.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Assume that life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. It the answer is yes, you've won.
Charlie Munger
If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group, then to hell with them.
Charlie Munger
I didn’t work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that’s what I’d be doing later.
David Hilbert
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Chanakya
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Swami Vivekananda
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda
A serpent, a king, a tiger, a stinging wasp, a small child, other's dog, and a fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya
A man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right.
Confucius
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett
Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
Warren Buffett
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren Buffett
Never bet against America.
Warren Buffett
I know of no better purpose to perish in attempting the great and impossible.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Aristotle
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Charles Bukowski
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Leo Burnett
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it--basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
Charles Bukowski
Some people never go crazy. What a truly horrible lives they must lead.
Charles Bukowski
Those who escape hell, however, never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that.
Charles Bukowski
You have to die a few times before you actually live.
Charles Bukowski
One would, of course, like to have a rigorous proof of this, but I have put aside the search for such a proof after some fleeting vain attempts...
Bernhard Reimann on Reimann Hypothesis in his 1859 paper
I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain.
Fermat on Fermat's Last Theorem
If your path demands you walk through hell, walk as if you own the place.
Unknown
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases obey it.
Julius Caesar
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favour.
Rumi
For two years a person learns to speak, and then for the rest of his life he learns to be silent.
Aristotle
A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control.
Jordan B. Peterson
Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.
Albert Einstein
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
There are two wolves fighting inside all of us. The first one is evil, the second one is good... Which wolf will win? The one you feed.
Native Americans
The trick of the trade is to stick with the trade.
Munishwer Chander Chadda
Now we are all sons of bitches
Kenneth Bainbridge to Robert Oppenheimer after the Trinity test
Every individual starts as a natural capitalist, only to lean towards socialism when they recognize that success is attained through painstaking effort.
Munishwer Chander Chadda
Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.
Warren Buffett
On Probability Theory: Learn it like a mathematician, understand it like a philosopher, and apply it like a professional gambler.
Mayank Chadha
Extraordinary performance comes only from correct non-consensus forecasts.
Howard Marks
Sorry to have gone too large on Elder Dempster. I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than 10 bad ones
John Maynard Keynes
There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
You can observe a lot by just watching
Yogi Berra
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Companies often misclassify their mistakes in terms of outputs rather than inputs, and in so doing allow the original mistakes go unchecked.
Nick Sleep's Annual Letter 2007
Invert, always invert.
Charlie Munger
Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
John Wayne
Murphy's law: What can go wrong will go wrong.
Sod's Corollary: Murphy was an optimist.
Fundsmith's Annual Letter 2022
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