It gets dangerous when the taste of having more - more money, more power, more prestige - increases ambition faster than satisfaction. In that case one step forward pushes the goalpost two steps ahead. You feel as if you're falling behind, and the only way to catch up is to take greater and greater amounts of risk.
- from The Psychology of Money book by Morgan Housel
When you write something, you focus your full attention on it. It's almost impossible to write one thing while thinking about another. The act of putting it on paper keeps your thoughts and intentions aligned.
- from Dark Matter book by Blake Crouch
News travels fast. Bad news, faster. Tragic news, the fastest.
- from The Next Wife book by Kaira Rouda
Many companies get comfortable doing what they have always done, with a few incremental changes. This kind of incrementalism leads to irrelevance over time, especially in technology, because change tends to be revolutionary not evolutionary. So you need to force yourself to place big bets on the future. It's why we invest in areas that may seem wildly speculative, such as self-driving cars or a balloon-powered Internet.
- Larry Page, from How Google Works book by Jonathan Rosenberg and Eric Schmidt
It sucks getting divorce papers. It's like a publicly filed declaration that you're an unlovable piece of shit. And no matter how awful your relationship has been, it's always a surprise when you get 'em.
- from Will book by Will Smith
Once politics gets in your blood you can't give it up.
- from The Boys from Biloxi book by John Grisham
People are like cats, you can't teach them anything.
- from Midnight's Children book by Salman Rushdie
Sometimes your passion takes work and you shouldn't give up on it just because it isn't easy. Sometimes, kid, you need to work harder to get to a better place.
- from The Last Thing He Told Me book by Laura Dave
Arrogance leaves us blind to our weaknesses. Humility is a reflective lens: it helps us see them clearly. Confident humility is a corrective lens: it enables us to overcome those weaknesses.
- from Think Again book by Adam Grant
If you know how to take care of money, money will flock to you and be thrown at you. People will beg you to take it.
- from Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant book by Robert Kiyosaki