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“Having the basics—a good bed to sleep in, good relationships, good food, and good sex—is most important, and those things don’t get much better when you have a lot of money or much worse when you have less. And the people one meets at the top aren’t necessarily more special than those one meets at the bottom or in between.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Pain + Reflection = Progress”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Summary

“Most people don’t want to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth that distraction is always an unhealthy escape from reality.”
― Nir Eyal, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

“People don’t remember books; they remember sentences.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Predicting what the world will look like fifty years from now is impossible. But predicting that people will still respond to greed, fear, opportunity, exploitation, risk, uncertainty, tribal affiliations, and social persuasion in the same way is a bet I’d take.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes