“Slow and steady wins the race.” – Aesop

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. --Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. --Abraham Lincoln

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told ..

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things. --Charles Schwab,entrepreneur

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened. --Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor

There is a real difference between managing and leading. Managing winds up being the allocation of resources against tasks.Leadership focuses on peopl

There is a real difference between managing and leading. Managing winds up being the allocation of resources against tasks. Leadership focuses on people. My definition of a leader is someone who helps people succeed. --Carol Bartz, Yahoo! CEO

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no.If you don't step forward,you're always in same

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." --Nora Roberts, American author

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." -Pearl Buck,Pulitzer Prize-winner

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. --David Brinkley, TV newscaster

If you plant humility, you will reap greatness....

If you plant honesty, you will reap trust
If you plant goodness, you will reap friends
If you plant humility, you will reap greatness
If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment
If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective
If you plant hard work, you will reap success
If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation

“The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body...

“The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both.” Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu,

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. --William James, American psychologist

You've got to work on important problems. I deny that it is all luck, but I admit there is a fair element of luck. -- Hamming

Let me summarize. You've got to work on important problems. I deny that it is all luck, but I admit there is a fair element of luck. I subscribe to Pasteur's ``Luck favors the prepared mind.'' I favor heavily what I did. Friday afternoons for years - great thoughts only - means that I committed 10% of my time trying to understand the bigger problems in the field, i.e. what was and what was not important. I found in the early days I had believed `this' and yet had spent all week marching in `that' direction. It was kind of foolish. If I really believe the action is over there, why do I march in this direction? I either had to change my goal or change what I did. So I changed something I did and I marched in the direction I thought was important. It's that easy.

Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. -- Bode

What Bode was saying was this: ``Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.'' Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. --Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. --Marcel Proust, French novelist

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. --Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
--Nora Roberts, American author

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. --Herb Caen, Pulitzer Prize-winning American columnist

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. --Samuel Johnson, English writer

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. --Abraham Lincoln

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. --E.E. Cummings, American poet

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. --Sun Tzu, Chinese general, author of "The Art of War"

Happiness keeps u Sweet, Trials keep u Strong, Sorrow keeps u Human, Failure Keeps u Humble, Success keeps u Glowing, But only God Keeps u Going.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. --Andy Warhol, American artist

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' --the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt

As a habit, I challenge myself to turn what I learn into three things I can apply.

As a habit, I challenge myself to turn what I learn into three things I can apply. There’s always more I can do, but I start with three. Here they are:

1. Help everybody get A’s. I’ll start by diagnose the development levels on my team. Does somebody on the team need more encouragement or more instruction than they’re getting right now?
2. Figure out how my resume will be different next year. I used to do this exercise regularly, but it’s been a while. Flashing forward is a great way to help me choose certain paths over others.
3. Decide, discover, and deliver the right customer experience. Very practically put, stop asking yes, no questions and start asking, what’s one thing we could have done differently to make your experience better?

charlie munger's musings - #3. Better to be roughly right than precisely wrong

1. Inversion as away to solve problems
2. collectors are happy people
3. Better to be roughly right than precisely wrong
4. Implement margin of safety

"You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh." --Jay Leno

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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders --Abigail Van Buren, advice columnist

"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse." --Anne-Sophie Swetchine, Russian-French writer

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." --Harry S. Truman, 33rd U.S.

Patience is the companion of wisdom. --St. Augustine, philosopher and theologian

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. --Aristotle

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. --Albert Camus, French-Algerian Nobel Prize-winning writer

"Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim." --Lord Byron,English poet

"The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B." --James Yorke, mathematics and physics professor

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." --Charles Dickens

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." --Bill Gates

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." --Confucius, Chinese philosopher

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. --Margaret Mead,American cultu

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. --Margaret Mead,American cultural anthropologist

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. --Muhammad Ali

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. --Immanuel Kant, German philosopher

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: 'Leave no stone unturned' --Edward Bulwer-Lytton

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: 'Leave no stone unturned.' --Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist, playwright and politician

"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people." --Will Rogers, American comedian, humorist

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." Voltaire

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." -James Baldwin,writer and civil rights

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." -Sydney Harris

"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." --Christopher Morley, American writer