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Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World by Graham Allison
Memorable quotes 1. China faces enormous economic problems—a disparity in income between the rich coastal cities and the inland provinces, and in income within the coastal cities. They have got to watch that carefully or they might get severe discontent and civil disorder 2. Americans have a can-do approach to life: everything can be broken […]
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
Finally decided to read one of the most-sold management books of all times. Memorable quotes In no case do we have a company that just happened to be sitting on the nose cone of a rocket when it took off. Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter […]
Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times by Dusan Djukich
A leader demonstrates his commitment to get to B by his willingness to be “who he needs to be” and do “whatever it takes in the form of necessary required actons” to get to B. The world said conform, the world said settle for less, the world said compromise and no one will know… […]
The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins
People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams by Jono Bacon
Memorable quotes This reality is producing conditions like never before for people across the globe to collaborate, share information, and build new things. Innovation is no longer just happening in labs If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. This delicious cocktail of technology, connectivity, and people […]
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
Memorable quotes In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if […]
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by Scott Peck
Memorable quotes What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems constructively that I call discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification acceptance of responsibility dedication to truth balancing Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to […]
Rich Dad’s Retire Young, Retire Rich by Robert Kiyosaki
Memorable quotes That is why so many people say, “When I retire, my income will go down. ” In other words, they are saying, “I plan on working hard all my life and then I will become poorer after I retire. ” Tat may have been an okay plan in the Industrial Age, but that […]
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason
Memorable quotes Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. Enjoy life while you are here. Do not overstrain or try to save too much. If one-tenth of all you earn is as much as you can comfortably keep, be content to keep this portion. Live otherwise according to […]
The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
Memorable quotes What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. But in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Don Juan slowly evolved from the masculine adventurer to a more feminized version: a man who lived only for women. This evolution came […]
Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Memorable quotes In contrast, humankind ascended to the top so quickly that the ecosystem was not given time to adjust. Moreover, humans themselves failed to adjust. Most top predators of the planet are majestic creatures. Millions of years of dominion have filled them with self-confidence. Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator […]
Titan, The Life of John D Rockefeller by Ron Chernow
Discipline was harsh and exacting: When students misbehaved, the teacher menacingly held a slate over their heads. If Rockefeller didn’t excel in class, it might have been in part because he lacked the bright boy’s exhibitionism, the yearning for gold stars; always inner-directed and indifferent to the approval of others, he was therefore free of […]
The Millionaire Next Door by Ph.D. Thomas J. Stanley; Ph.D. William D. Danko
Even most multimillionaires in America don’t live in expensive homes. I recently tabulated the 2007 IRS estate data (the latest data available) for those decedents with an estate valued at $3.5 million or more. I estimated that the median market value of a decedent’s home was $469,021, or less than 10 percent of their median […]
Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
A good book by blogger and author Mark Manson, he argues for a counterintuitive approach to living a good life. His view is that life’s struggle gives it meaning – and that mindless positivity of typical self-help books is neither practical or helpful. Similar to Marcus Aurelius “circle of influence” – Mark highlights the importance […]
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by G. Kim, K Behr & G Spafford
Precisely!” I hear Erik say. “You even used the term I like most for it: unplanned work. Firefighting is vividly descriptive, but ‘unplanned work’ is even better. It might even be better to call it ‘anti-work,’ since it further highlights its destructive and avoidable nature. “Unlike the other categories of work, unplanned work is recovery […]