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"Better roughly right than precisely wrong"
- Keynes
"The strongest teams have a lot of diversity of thought but do not have much diversity of values or goals."
- Sam Altman
"You can't learn the quality of a decision from the outcome"
- C. Jackson Grayson Jr.
"The only thing worse than losing is not playing"
- Howard Marks (probably not but who I heard it from)
"The present is theirs. The future, for which I really worked, is mine."
- Nicola Tesla
"No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future"
- Ian Wilson
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is absurd"
- Voltaire
"You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit"
- Harry Truman
"I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job"
- Darwin Smith, Kimberly Clark CEO, Good to Great
"The more you smile, the more you smile"
- Sign at the San Diego Airport
"Culture is how employees hearts and stomachs feel about Monday morning on Sunday night"
- Bill Marklein
"Be quick but don't hurry"
- Heard in talk at a conference
"The cowards never started and the weak died along the way – that leaves us."
- Phil Knight
"Increase your surface area for serendipity"
- Shaan Puri
"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized"
- Daniel Burnham, Chicago Architect
"It is better to remember the obvious than to grasp the esoteric"
- Charlie Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack
"The company that needs a new machine tool and hasn't bought it is already paying for it"
- Charlie (via a Warner & Swasey ad from the 50s)
"Pressure is a privilege, and champions adjust"
- Billie Jean King
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo [after learning of a rising dark power]. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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