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“The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”
― Hamza Yusuf

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Are you naturally entitled, then, to a good father? No, only to a father.” ​Epictetus, Enchiridion, 30”
― Einzelgänger, Stoicism for Inner Peace

“Praise people and watch them grow. Last but not least the third ingredient, Appreciation.”
― Marc Reklau, How to Become a People Magnet: 62 Life-Changing Tips to Attract Everyone You Meet

“If you want to give advice, ask for permission.”
― Marc Reklau, How to Become a People Magnet: 62 Life-Changing Tips to Attract Everyone You Meet

“I might be wrong, but let’s look at it.”
― Marc Reklau, How to Become a People Magnet: 62 Life-Changing Tips to Attract Everyone You Meet

“Put yourself in their shoes and try to understand them.”
― Marc Reklau, How to Become a People Magnet: 62 Life-Changing Tips to Attract Everyone You Meet

“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”
― Marc Reklau, How to Become a People Magnet: 62 Life-Changing Tips to Attract Everyone You Meet

“Goethe already knew this hundreds of years ago: ‘If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
― Marc Reklau, How to Become a People Magnet: 62 Life-Changing Tips to Attract Everyone You Meet

“Pygmalion Effect—Our belief in a person’s potential brings that potential to life.”
― Marc Reklau, How to Become a People Magnet: 62 Life-Changing Tips to Attract Everyone You Meet

“Focus on the other person’s strengths and see them in an entirely new way.”
― Marc Reklau, How to Become a People Magnet: 62 Life-Changing Tips to Attract Everyone You Meet

“Make it look easy and see people thrive.”
― Marc Reklau, How to Become a People Magnet: 62 Life-Changing Tips to Attract Everyone You Meet

“Capitalism doesn’t incentivize charity unless it’s a relatively small marketing expense.”
― Bradley Hope, Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power: 'The Explosive New Book'

“that required turning the vision into a specific plan, with numbers to demonstrate how it would work and international buy-in to show that it would help boost the kingdom’s global status. He knew where to turn for help.”
― Bradley Hope, Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power: 'The Explosive New Book'

“Mohammed bin Salman developed a fascination with consultants when he was setting up his own companies and his MiSK foundation before his father became king. One idea he loved was the creation of key performance indicators,”
― Bradley Hope, Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power: 'The Explosive New Book'

“Mohammed didn’t respond to strategies that weren’t backed up by numbers.”
― Bradley Hope, Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power: 'The Explosive New Book'

“Under Mohammed, the ministers would each get several million dollars a year. But they would have to meet their KPIs, and the government would no longer turn a blind eye to kickback schemes.”
― Bradley Hope, Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power: 'The Explosive New Book'

“Instead of providing dry updates and patting themselves on the back and praising the vision of their glorious leaders, ministers were expected to present in stages a vision for their ministries, a strategy for achieving it, and then updates on their progress. Before they could even present, they had to get past a special group within the council that vetted presentations. The then-thirty-year-old Mohammed would ask questions”
― Bradley Hope, Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power: 'The Explosive New Book'

“Consultants make money by getting assigned to giant projects, not by telling their employers that such projects are bad ideas.”
― Bradley Hope, Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power: 'The Explosive New Book'

“Mohammed proposed he only pay the consultants based on results. “I’ll pay you when you reach the KPIs”—in 2030, the prince said.”
― Bradley Hope, Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power: 'The Explosive New Book'

“All success stories start with a vision, and successful visions are based on strong pillars,” the Vision 2030 statement said.”
― Bradley Hope, Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power: 'The Explosive New Book'

“A veteran of Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds who has grown cynical over the years explains how it works for Gulf investors. All the best deals and opportunities are seized upon by big American institutions with the help of New York City banks. The second-tier deals go to the Europeans. And the lemons are packaged up and rebranded for what derisive bankers call the “dumb money” in the Middle East. “They don’t care about us,” he says. “They only want our money.”
― Bradley Hope, Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.”
― Al-Ghazzali

“An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”
― Donald Knuth, Leaders in Computing: Changing the digital world

“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.”
― Donald E. Knuth, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Volume 136)

“Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”
― John von Neumann

“Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face--there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes.

Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet