“The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.” — Warren Buffett (2001)

“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” – Galatians 6:9

“Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?” – Matthew 6:27

“First day of practice we had to learn the rules of basketball. Now, most people think rules tell you what you cannot do. But rules also tell you what you can do.”

– Bill Russell

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

– Mark Twain

“Yet we cannot avoid the conclusion that the most generally accepted principle of timing--viz., that purchases should be made only after an upswing has definitely announced itself--is basically opposed to the essential nature of investment. Traditionally the investor has been the man with the patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling. If the investor is now to hold back until the market itself encourages him, how will he distinguish himself from the speculator, and wherein will he deserve better than the ordinary speculator’s fate?” – Benjamin Graham & David Dodd

“Often when a young coach comes to see me to ask for advice, I tell them to imprint their vision of the game and not to forget that the game itself is a good coach and that observation is often as effective as talking. During a match, there are billions of possible combinations, and that’s what makes football the wonderful, rich, surprising sport that it is. A player is constantly adapting his technique to the situation. He cannot act just on reflex. He has to prepare, correct himself, find his place, decide: All this is something he acquires, he works on, he builds on. But he will need to be innovating constantly as he makes his decisions because the situation will never be exactly the same as whatever he experienced in the previous scenario, in the previous match. Our sport depends on three criteria: ball control, decision making, and the quality of execution.” – Arséne Wenger

“Rather than being told which tools are available for which ends, it is more useful to invent your own tools.” – Richard Serra

“Geometry is the art of reasoning well from badly drawn figures.” – Henri Poincaré

“We’ve survived as well as we have because we keep learning.” – Octavia Butler

Yes. You can short civilization if you want. Not a bad bet really. But no one to pay you if you win. Whereas if you go long on civilization, and civilization (therefore) survives, you win big. So the smart move is to go long. Go long. – Kim Stanley Robinson

“I didn’t hear no bell.” – Rocky Balboa, Rocky V (1990)

“Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people. So, if everybody doesn’t buy into the same principles and values of the organization at the same high standard, you’re never going to be successful. Just like our spring practice right now. You know what my goal with spring practice is? Get the right guys on the bus. Get them in the right seats. And get the wrong guys off the bus.” – Nick Saban

“They're a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.” – Nick Carraway

“I venture that ‘current trends’ will no longer hold. That’s because ‘current trends’ always look linear while history’s full arc almost never does. […] Life is like the Mississippi. It flows. It meanders. Zoom in close enough, and you may find a straight edge, but the whole landscape is a restless and ever-curving thing.”
– Ben Orlin, Change Is the Only Constant

“Each crisis also has its unique individual features – the nature of the shock, the object of speculation, the form of credit expansion, the ingenuity of the swindlers and the nature of the incident that touches off revulsion. But if one may borrow a French phrase, the more something changes, the more it remains the same. Details proliferate; structure abides.”
– Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Aliber

”The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices / Make instruments to plague us.”
- King Lear (5.3.162-163)

“Just stay busy, stay working. Puff told me, like, the key to this joint—the key to staying on top of things—is treat everything like it's your first project, nomsayin'? Like, it's your first day, like, back when you was an intern. Like, that's how you try to treat things like, just stay hungry."
— The Notorious B.I.G. on the intro to “My 1st Song” by Jay-Z