Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told. ― Paul Graham
If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now. ― Paul Graham
Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.― Ettore Sottsass
A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. -- Tim Ferriss
We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them. -- Ed Catmull
Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item. -- Bertrand Russell
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. — Jules Verne
1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself, 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect, 3) Work only with people you enjoy. -- Charlie Munger
The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win. – Charlie Munger