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“Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.”
― Joel Greenblatt, The Little Book That Beats the Market

“In short, companies that achieve a high return on capital are likely to have a special advantage of some kind. That special advantage keeps competitors from destroying the ability to earn above-average profits.”
― Joel Greenblatt, The Little Book That Beats the Market

“if you just stick to buying good companies (ones that have a high return on capital) and to buying those companies only at bargain prices (at prices that give you a high earnings yield), you can end up systematically buying many of the good companies that crazy Mr. Market has decided to literally give away.”
― Joel Greenblatt, The Little Book That Beats the Market

“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Breeze”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“I strive for nothing if not consistency”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Know what you own, and know why you own it”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

“Big companies have small moves, small companies have big moves.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

“The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“The secret of his success is that he never went to business school. Imagina all the lessons he never had to unlearn.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

“When looking at the same sky, people in mature industries see clouds where people in immature industries see pie.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Madness is rare in individuals—but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule,”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

“By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse resume to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready--for nothing in particular.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“You should focus relentlessly on something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future