Moritz > Moritz's Quotes

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
― Warren Buffett

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Buffett has said that the stock market is designed to transfer money “from the active to the patient.”
― Tren Griffin

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
― Steve Jobs

“Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess.”
― Naval Ravikant

“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.”
― Naval Ravikant

“You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
― Mark Twain

“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.”
― Nicolas Chamfort