Same as Ever Quotes

“3. Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“an expert is always from out of town. It’s similar to the Bible verse that says no man is a prophet in his own country.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“A little cool air from the north is no big deal. A little warm breeze from the south is pleasant. But when they mix together over Missouri you get a tornado. That’s called emergent effects, and they can be wildly powerful. Same with new technology. One boring thing plus one boring thing can equal one world-changing thing in a way that’s hard to fathom if you don’t respect exponential growth. The same thing happens in careers, when someone with a few mediocre skills mixed together at the right time becomes multiple times more successful than someone who’s an expert in one thing.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“The value of every new technology is not just what it can do; it’s what someone else with a totally different skill set and point of view can eventually manipulate it into.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“The higher the monkey climbs a tree, the more you can see his ass,” oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“The only thing harder than gaining a competitive edge is not losing an advantage when you have one.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“After slapping Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars, Will Smith turned to Denzel Washington for advice. Washington said, “At”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Things can become the most dangerous when people perceive them to be the safest.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“There is a balance, he said, between needing unwavering faith that things will get better while accepting the reality of brutal facts, whatever they may be. Things will eventually get better. But we’re not going home by Christmas.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“optimism is equally essential. The belief that things can be, and will be, better even when the evidence is murky is one of the most essential parts of everything”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Pessimism is more intellectually seductive than optimism and captures more of our attention. It’s vital for survival, helping us prepare for risks before they arrive.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson echoed the same when he said, “Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Nassim Taleb says he’s a libertarian at the federal level, a Republican at the state level, a Democrat at the local level, and a socialist at the family level.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Capabilities are a function of in-the-moment circumstances.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Carved on the wall at University of Chicago is a quote from Lord Kelvin that says, “When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.” He’s not wrong, but the danger is assuming that if something can’t be measured it doesn’t matter. The opposite is true: Some of the most important forces in the world—particularly those regarding people’s personalities and mindsets—are nearly impossible to measure and impossible to predict.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Readers don’t want a lecture; they want a memorable story.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Ken Burns’s The Civil War documentary”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“People are busy and emotional, and a good story is always more powerful and persuasive than ice-cold statistics.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“doubt. After all, the one thing that is surely counterproductive for a prey animal that is threatened by a predator is to take a long time in deciding what to do.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Visa founder Dee Hock once said, “New ways of looking at things create much greater innovation than new ways of doing them.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Ralph Hodgson put this well when he said, “Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“take the stock market. The valuation of every company is simply a number from today multiplied by a story about tomorrow.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Or take the stock market. The valuation of every company is simply a number from today multiplied”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Physicist Freeman Dyson once explained that what’s often attributed to the supernatural, or magic, or miracles, is actually just basic math.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“You think you want progress, both for yourself and for the world. But most of the time that’s not actually what you want. You want to feel a gap between what you expected and what actually happened. And the expectation side of that equation is not only important, but it’s often more in your control than managing your circumstances.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“It’s staggering how expectations can alter how you interpret current circumstances.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“So in a world that tends to get better for most people most of the time, an important life skill is getting the goalpost to stop moving. It’s also one of the hardest.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“That’s the real definition of risk—what’s left over after you’ve prepared for the risks you can imagine.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“The absurdity of past connections should humble your confidence in predicting future ones.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“One is highlighting this book’s premise—”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes