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Motto: “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” — John Maynard Keynes On Investment & Complexity

  • “The ability to perceive differences is a personal skill, yet difference itself is not the key to understanding things, nor is it particularly meaningful.”
  • “The core of investing lies in finding companies characterized by ’extreme and compounding success.’ The temptation to seek tiny opportunities in mediocre companies for short-term gains is a permanent one. This temptation must be resisted. It requires conviction.” — James Anderson
  • “I confess to finding the Margin of Potential Upside more alluring than the classic Margin of Safety.”
  • “The art of investment is the discipline of inaction in the absence of a good opportunity, but aggressive action when one is identified.” — Li Lu
  • “Brilliance is the ability to simplify a mass amount of information into a simple yes/no decision.” — Warren Buffett
  • “Entrepreneurial success is often based on low-probability events, but investor success must be based on high-probability events.”
  • “The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.” — Charlie Munger
  • “Volatility is the friend of a long-term investor.”
  • “Making money is a Skill. Maintaining money is a Discipline. Multiplying money is an Art.”
  • “If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.” — Leslie Lamport On Life, Time & Experience
  • “Humans essentially have only experiences, not age. Age is a hollow concept of time with no inherent value. The essence of life is to experience, feel, and try; these come from cognition, ambition, courage, and action.”
  • “The strong do not linger on the wrong people or things. Once they recognize the situation, they admit defeat, pay the bill, and leave immediately. No complaining, no entanglements, no explanations. Protect your energy.”
  • “90% of things in life don’t require you to win; they only require you to get out. Many fail because they refuse to disengage.”
  • “When meeting on a narrow path, the one with the more precious life steps back first. Your future is more important than winning a petty squabble. Avoiding traps unrelated to your destination is the wisdom a traveler must have.”
  • “Life will deal you some unfair and terrible blows; you must use them constructively.” — Charlie Munger
  • “A person’s true progress = long periods of stagnation + a sudden outburst.”
  • “The greatest end of life is not knowledge, but action.” — Sam Altman
  • “Real progress = a long period of stagnation + a sudden outburst.”
  • “Fate has three turning points: the family of origin, the spouse, and the awakened self.” — Kazuo Inamori On Discipline & Habits
  • “Discipline can fix 80% of your problems.”
  • “The highest return on investment in life: Cultivating an output-oriented hobby.”
  • “Just make it exist first, you can make it good later.”
  • “Consistency = Success.”
  • “Your goals mean nothing if your habits stay the same.”
  • “Discipline is nothing but self-respect at the highest level.”
  • “The Rule of 100: If you spend 100 hours a year in any discipline (18 minutes a day), you’ll be better than 95% of the world in that discipline.” On Systems & Societies
  • “A bad system will beat a good person every time.” — W. Edwards Deming
  • “The most sophisticated invention of tyranny is to make victims believe they are participating in a great cause.” — Joseph Brodsky
  • “The progress of civilization is measured by the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.” — Alfred North Whitehead
  • “In America and Japan, President and Prime Minister are high-risk professions; in China, primary school students are a high-risk group (except for one person).”
  • “The only defensible hierarchy is competence.” — Jordan Peterson On Wisdom & Perspective
  • “If you get angry at a donkey, then who is the donkey?” (If you get furious because of an idiot, the idiot is you.)
  • “Rather than educating idiots, it’s more efficient to take all their money.”
  • “Intuition is Knowledge Distillation.”
  • “What you see is a perspective, not the truth; what you hear is an opinion, not the fact.” — Marcus Aurelius
  • “The smartest people are all self-taught, even if they went to school.” — Naval Ravikant
  • “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” — Carl Jung
  • “Money talks, but wealth whispers.”
  • “Authenticity + Systems + Leverage = Freedom.” The Quick List
  • Success: 5% strategy, 95% execution.
  • The Three Ways to Go Broke: Liquor, ladies, and leverage.
  • The Definition of Excellence: Functioning with utmost ease at your best.
  • The Secret to Love: Realizing it might be lost.
  • The Essence of Art: Accepting that life doesn’t make sense. Next Step: Would you like me to organize these quotes into specific sub-sections (e.g., The Munger Files, Complexity Systems, or The Baillie Gifford Latticework) for your Wiki?