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“Two thousand years ago, Seneca wrote: “Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach.”
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
“In the poem, “A Gathered Distance,” Mark Tredinnick articulates this well. He writes: A garden is never Finished, and nor are you: Become, I think, a garden again, And never, like a garden, cease.”
― Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
― Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
“Anything or anybody who is living rent-free in your head is squatting. That energy and bandwidth could be better invested elsewhere”
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
“It seemed to me—articulated in words of today—that not only did she know how to put things well but she was developing a gift that I was already familiar with: more effectively than she had as a child, she took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“plan your out ahead of time, so when the emotion of the moment takes over, you’ve got a signal you can count on. Knowing when to quit is essential. It’s an art. All successful people have quit. Some, often. Find people you trust who have the backbone and perspective to tell you if/when you should hang in there or fold your cards.”
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
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