"It is hard to be an expert on everything and to be good at it all. Here’s a shortcut - find something you can be very good at, preferably something you are genuinely interested in and will have the patience to excel at. Learn everything about your niche you can and then start writing and talking about it where people will hear you. Make yourself the center of the discussion of that one thing. Care deeply and keep exploring the topic every chance you get."
— Make Yourself Useful — The Reformed Broker
(Source: thereformedbroker.com)
"If you really want to know where you destiny lies, look at where you apply your time."
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This post renoates with me through and through. I recommend spending a few minutes to read it and however much time you deem appropriate to ponder on it.
Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort « blog maverick
(by @mcuban, via david-noel)
"If I try my best and fail, well, I tried my best."
— Steve Jobs, 1998 (via bijan)
(Source: gregmelander, via bijan)
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
— Henry Ford
"Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130 IQ. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing."
— Warren Buffett
"The average doesn’t matter when you’re fragile."
— Nassim Taleb
"In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right. Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company."
— Ben (via brycedotvc)
"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
— Cicero
"Go do something important right now, whatever that is for you. The world needs it and your chances of living a meaningful, happy, and fulfilling life will increase dramatically."
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A Message To Graduating MBA’s — Brad Feld
As a recent MBA graduate trying to figure out where and how I can contribute best and most to an organization or cause, Brad’s piece really struck a cord with me.
"The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of the child at play"
— Nietzsche
"…our most important talent is having a talent for working hard, for practicing even when practice isn’t fun."
— What Is Success? (The Importance of Grit) — Jonah Lehrer
"Stay far from timid, only make moves when your heart’s in it, and live the phrase “sky’s the limit”."
— Biggie
"true value is created on the left side of a balance sheet—the assets of a firm, and how they are deployed—not in financial engineering of the right. The latter is important, but it’s not where the real shareholder value rubber meets the road."
— Sympathy for the Devil — The Epicurean Dealmaker
"If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time."
— Chinese Proverb
