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“No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”
― Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

“Talk little, do much, and be more than you appear to be.”
― Helmuth Graf von Moltke

“If it is important, do it every day. If it’s not important, don’t do it at all.”
― Dan John, Never Let Go: A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning

“Warren Buffett, quoting Henry Ford, often talks about the importance of keeping all your eggs in one basket, then watching that basket very carefully. One thing that appalled me and that I’d seen too many times was the Wall Street practice of having many eggs in many baskets. Even the most reputable mutual fund companies have a practice of selling multiple funds. The ones that do well are those that then get the marketing dollars and raise more money from investors. The ones that do poorly are either shut down or merged into the better-performing funds. In the process, the failures are buried as if they’d never existed while”
― Guy Spier, The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment