Same as Ever Quotes

“A carefree and stress-free life sounds wonderful only until you recognize the motivation and progress it prevents”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“What makes life mean something is purpose. A goal. The battle, the struggle—even if you don’t win it.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Great books are wine,” Twain said, “but my books are water. But everybody drinks water.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“We might have higher incomes, more wealth, and bigger homes—but it’s all so quickly smothered by inflated expectations”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“The first nuclear bomb was developed to end World War II. Within a decade we had enough bombs to end the world—all of it.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life

“Money buys happiness in the same way drugs bring pleasure: incredible if done right, dangerous if used to mask a weakness, and disastrous when no amount is enough.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life

“Crazy doesn’t mean broken. Crazy is normal; beyond the point of crazy is normal.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Montesquieu wrote 275 years ago, “If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“The biggest risk is always what no one sees coming, because if no one sees it coming, no one’s prepared for it; and if no one’s prepared for it, its damage will be amplified when it arrives.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Our life is indeed the same”: Carl Jung, Collected Works of C. G. Jung, vol. 7: Two Essays in Analytical Psychology (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1972).”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“There are two types of information: permanent and expiring. Permanent information is: “How do people behave when they encounter a risk they hadn’t fathomed?” Expiring information is: “How much profit did Microsoft earn in the second quarter of 2005?” Expiring knowledge catches more attention than it should, for two reasons. One, there’s a lot of it, eager to keep our short attention spans occupied. Two, we chase it down, anxious to squeeze insight out of it before it loses relevance. Permanent information is harder to notice because it’s buried in books rather than blasted in headlines. But its benefit is huge. It’s not just that permanent information never expires, letting you accumulate it. It also compounds over time, leveraging off what you’ve already learned. Expiring information tells you what happened; permanent information tells you why something happened and is likely to happen again. That “why” can translate and interact with stuff you know about other topics, which is where the compounding comes in.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“there are those that would totally disagree with this and say “Gee, if I could just be a millionaire! That would be the most wonderful thing.” If I could just not have to work every day, if I could just be out fishing or hunting or playing golf or traveling, that would be the most wonderful life in the world—they don’t know life. Because what makes life mean something is purpose. A goal. The battle, the struggle—even if you don’t win it.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life

“But when Van Valen plotted extinctions by a species’ age, the trend looked more like a straight line. Some species survived a long time. But among groups of species, the probability of extinction was roughly the same whether it was 10,000 years old or 10 million years old. In a 1973 paper titled “A New Evolutionary Law,” Van Valen wrote that “the probability of extinction of a taxon is effectively independent of its age.” If you take a thousand marbles and remove 2 percent of them each year, some marbles will remain in the jar after twenty years. But the odds of being picked out are the same every year (2 percent). Marbles don’t get better at staying in the jar. Species are the same. Some happen to live a long time, but the odds of surviving don’t improve over time.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Great ideas explained poorly can go nowhere, while old or wrong ideas told compellingly can ignite a revolution. Morgan Freeman can narrate a grocery list and bring people to tears, while an inarticulate scientist might cure a disease and go unnoticed.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“That’s the balance—planning like a pessimist and dreaming like an optimist.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“That idea—the belief that things will get better mixed with the reality that the path between now and then will be a continuous chain of setback, disappointment, surprise, and shock—shows up all over history, in all areas of life.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Unsustainable things can last longer than you anticipate.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“When good and honest people can be incentivized into crazy behavior, it’s easy to underestimate the odds of the world going off the rails.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“The question “Why don’t you agree with me?” can have infinite answers. Sometimes one side is selfish, or stupid, or blind, or uninformed. But usually a better question is, “What have you experienced that I haven’t that makes you believe what you do? And would I think about the world like you do if I experienced what you have?”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Which of my current views would I disagree with if I were born in a different country or generation?”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“On a similar note, author Yuval Noah Harari writes: “To enjoy peace, we need almost everyone to make good choices. By contrast, a poor choice by just one side can lead to war.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“as Benedict Evans says, “The more the Internet exposes people to new points of view, the angrier people get that different views exist.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“something few, if anyone, predicted.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Two things tend to happen after you get hit with something big and unexpected: • You assume what just happened will keep happening, but with greater force and consequence. • You forecast with great conviction, despite the original event being improbable and”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Warren Buffett says it takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to destroy one.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Chris Rock once joked about who actually teaches kids in school: “Teachers do one half, bullies do the other,” he said. “And learning how to deal with bullies is the half you’ll actually use as a grown-up.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“There was a most convenient size for Starbucks—there is for all businesses. Push past it and you realize that revenue might scale but disappointed customers scale faster, in the same way Robert Wadlow became a giant but struggled to walk.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“No matter how much information and context you have, nothing is more persuasive than what you desperately want or need to be true.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“1. Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich. 2. Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes