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“Decisions decides your output”
― Jo

“Twenty metric tonnes of confiscated gold, worth US$200 million, held in its vaults was made available by the RBI to the State Bank of India for sale, with a repurchase option, to the Union Bank of Switzerland.”
― Sanjaya Baru, 1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History

“We reject nothing useful for its plainness, we take nothing irrelevant for its dazzle.”
― Sanjaya Baru, 1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History

“During a time in which clean-tech businesses have gone bankrupt with alarming regularity, Musk has built two of the most successful clean-tech companies in the world. The Musk Co. empire of factories, tens of thousands of workers, and industrial might has incumbents on the run and has turned Musk into one of the richest men in the world, with a net worth around $10 billion. The visit to”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

“I calculated the backstop value, and it was something like fifty cents on the dollar, while the actual debt was trading at twenty-five cents,” Musk said.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

“Musk had spent months studying the aerospace industry and the physics behind it. From Cantrell and others, he’d borrowed Rocket Propulsion Elements, Fundamentals of Astrodynamics, and Aerothermodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propulsion, along with several more seminal texts.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

“would place this urgency that he expected the revenue in ten years to be ten million dollars a day and that every day we were slower to achieve our goals was a day of missing out on that money.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written elsewhere, take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge.”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

“One thing that can be a great factor in deciding how you spend your time in the mornings is to know the goal you are trying to reach. Then, dedicate most of your early morning hours to this activity.”
― Timo Kiander, Work Smarter Not Harder: 18 Productivity Tips That Boost Your Work Day Performance

“In other words, after working for 52 minutes, the people took a 17-minute break. This result was based on the analysis of the top 10% most productive employees.”
― Timo Kiander, Work Smarter Not Harder: 18 Productivity Tips That Boost Your Work Day Performance

“Implement a habit of planning your day in advance. This way you know exactly what you should be focusing on when your work day starts.”
― Timo Kiander, Work Smarter Not Harder: 18 Productivity Tips That Boost Your Work Day Performance

“The trick is not to learn to trust your gut feelings, but rather to discipline yourself to ignore them. Stand by your stocks as long as the fundamental story of the company hasn’t changed.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“If you’re considering a stock on the strength of some specific product that a company makes, the first thing to find out is: What effect will the success of the product have on the company’s bottom line?”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“Once I’ve established the size of the company relative to others in a particular industry, next I place it into one of six general categories: slow growers, stalwarts, fast growers, cyclicals, asset plays, and turnarounds.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“There is hardly a function in life that is not influenced by temperament”
― Tim LaHaye, Why You Act the Way You Do

“Temperament traits, whether controlled or uncontrolled, last throughout life.”
― Tim LaHaye, Why You Act the Way You Do

“might is still right, but the might is the weakness of the many combined against the strength of the few.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Now early life is very impressible, and children ought not to learn what they will have to unlearn when they grow up; we must therefore have a censorship of nursery tales, banishing some and keeping others.”
― Plato, The Republic

“the strongest seeds most need the accompaniment of good air and soil, so the best of human characters turn out the worst when they fall upon an unsuitable soil;”
― Plato, The Republic

“Trade secret law protects information that is not generally known, has economic value because it is secret, and the business takes reasonable steps to keep secret. This protection applies even if there is a contract.”
― Laura Frederick, Practical Tips on How to Contract: Techniques and Tactics from an Ex-BigLaw and Ex-Tesla Commercial Contracts Lawyer

“Remember there are three big buckets of liability associated with a contract - direct damages, indirect or consequential damages, and other liability that isn't a damage. This last category includes indemnification and some warranty claims.”
― Laura Frederick, Practical Tips on How to Contract: Techniques and Tactics from an Ex-BigLaw and Ex-Tesla Commercial Contracts Lawyer

“So open questions to understand. Closed questions to confirm and gain commitment.”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“They want someone to show them how their lives can be enriched or made easier. They want solutions to their problems. They want honest, understandable advice.”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“must turn myself around so that I am viewing life as my prospects see it. Only then can I start addressing their issues, help to prevent their pain, and advise on solutions to their problems.”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“Men constantly miscalculate what they can do”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club