A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

John Gall

This thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is like choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Yann Martel

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Blaise Pascal

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Robert J. Hanlon

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky (Michael Scott)

What gets measured gets managed.

Peter Drucker

Running a start-up is like eating glass.

Sean Parker

Be here now.

Ram Dass

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Theodore Roosevelt

You can just do things.

Sam Altman

Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Running a start-up is like eating glass.

Sean Parker

When a great team meets a lousy market, market wins. When a lousy team meets a great market, market wins. When a great team meets a great market, something special happens.

Andy Rachleff

We teach people how to treat us.

Phil McGraw

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Mike Tyson

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

Perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing more to add, but when there's nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.

Nat Friedman

The world has ended for me many times, yet the sun always rises the next day.

Nayyirah Waheed

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain

Try to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

Charlie Munger

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Zig Ziglar

If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.

Tim Kreider

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

Boccaccio

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Alain de Botton

My religion is kindness. That's my religion.

Dalai Lama

I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

Warren Buffett

You either invested when you shouldn't have or didn't invest enough.

Unknown

You waste years by not being able to waste hours.

Amos Tversky

No conflict, no interest.

John Doerr

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

Warren Buffett

Committed decisions show up in two places: your calendar and your bank account.

Carole Hildebrand

Show me your calendar and I'll show you your future.

Ryan Leak

When you give another human, your family or your business the fullness of your being at any moment, a little is enough. When you give them half of it, there is never enough.

Ram Dass

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.

William Gibson

All models are wrong, some are useful.

George Box

Less, but better.

Dieter Rams

Do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation.

C. S. Lewis

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Pressure is a privilege.

Billie Jean King

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.

Colonel David Hackworth

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean-Luc Godard

In times of change the learners will inherit the earth.

Eric Hoffer

Life is about optimizing discomfort.

Unknown

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Richard Feynman

The path to conviction runs through doubt.

Unknown

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The mind of a poor performer always seeks a villain, seldom a mirror.

Bertolt Brecht

Never let schooling get in the way of your education.

Mark Twain

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

Heraclitus

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Unknown

What you chain yourself to is what sets you free.

David Brooks

The world is a museum of passion projects.

John Collison

Once we know where we are, then the world becomes as narrow as a map.

Cixin Liu

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Paulo Coelho

He never grew up, but he never stopped growing.

Arthur C. Clarke

Not writing is worse.

Unknown

Storytelling is the operating system of human consciousness.

Damien Walter

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

Warren Buffett

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

Warren Buffett

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.

Warren Buffett

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

Warren Buffett

Take a simple idea, and take it seriously.

Charlie Munger

It takes character to sit with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

Charlie Munger

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

Charlie Munger

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

Charlie Munger

The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.

Charlie Munger

You pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world.

Jay Alto

You can sign a contract with a mercenary, but you can only play an eternal game with a missionary.

Will Manidis

Grapes that have to fight for their life make for the best wine.

Unknown

No matter how cool you think you are, you're not cool enough to look down on anyone. Ever.

Paul Walker

Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.

Rick Sanchez

Some people confess guilt to claim credit for the sin.

John von Neumann

All ambitious men want either to please their fathers or to punch them in the goddamned face.

Antonio Garcia Martinez