When you’ve had a taste of magic, it’s hard to be satisfied with the ordinary again.
– from The Lost Bookshop book by Evie Woods
When someone learns to drive a …
When someone learns to drive a race car, one of the first lessons taught is that when you are going around a curve at 200 mph, do not focus on the wall; focus on the road. If you focus on the wall, you will drive right into it. If you focus on the road, you will follow the road. Running a company is like that. There are always a thousand things that can go wrong and sink the ship. If you focus too much on them, you will drive yourself nuts and likely crash your company. Focus on where you are going rather than on what you hope to avoid.
– from The Hard Thing About Hard Things book by Ben Horowitz
Whenever I come to a new …
Whenever I come to a new town, I like to get my bearings. I want to understand the layout of the streets and the layout of the people. In some cities this can take you days to accomplish. In Boston, it can take you weeks. In New York, years.
– from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
Hyperinflation is a form of economic …
Hyperinflation is a form of economic disaster unique to government money. There was never an example of hyperinflation with economies that operated a gold or silver standard, and even when artifact money like seashells and beads lost its monetary role over time, it usually lost it slowly, with replacements taking over more and more of the purchasing power of the outgoing money. But with government money, whose cost of production tends to zero, it has become quite possible for an entire society to witness all of its savings in the form of money disappear in the space of a few months or even weeks.
– from The Bitcoin Standard book by Saifedean Ammous
Happy people love people, use things …
Happy people love people, use things, and worship the divine; unhappy people use people, love things, and worship themselves.
– from The 5 Types of Wealth book by Sahil Bloom
Our history has always been the …
Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us.
– from A Promised Land book by Barack Obama
Personally, if I were the government …
Personally, if I were the government, I’d want the priests to be bled once a month. Yes, every month an ample phlebotomy, in the interests of law and order and morality!
– from Madame Bovary book by Gustave Flaubert
Books were more than words on …
Books were more than words on paper; they were portals to other places, other lives.
– from The Lost Bookshop book by Evie Woods
When money becomes more important than …
When money becomes more important than happiness, your life passes you by, because you can’t lower your guard and enjoy yourself. Money is a tricky thing: it can bring you freedom and happiness, but it can also bring pain and anxiety.
– from Breathe book by Rickson Gracie
There is really no such thing …
There is really no such thing as conditional love and unconditional love. There are conditions and there is love. When you talk about love, it has to be unconditional. The moment there is a condition, it just amounts to a transaction. Maybe a convenient transaction, maybe a good arrangement, but that will not fulfill you or transport you to another dimension. It is just convenient. Love need not necessarily be convenient; most of the time it is not. It takes life. You have to invest yourself.
– from Inner Engineering book by Sadhguru