INVESTING
“Predicting rain doesn’t count, but building an ark does.” Prem Wasta
“If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.” Thomas Kaplan
“If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.” Niall Ferguson
“The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.” Warren Buffett
“The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.” Peter Thiel
PERSONAL FINANCE
“We are spending money we don’t have, buying things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t even care.” Dave Ramsey
“The FI (Financial Independence) community lives frugally and saves a large percentage of their income in order to retire early. They buy time instead of things.” Chris Mamula
LIFE
“Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.” Ron Paul
“If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don’t need to worry about the future.” Jordan Peterson
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” Thomas Jefferson
“Facts don’t care about your feelings” Ben Shapiro
“I would rather stand for what I believe in than to bow down and be loved” Dave Rubin
“I arrived in this place (Canada) not speaking the language, not knowing a dog… This is a country that does not ask about your origins; it only concerns itself with your destiny.” Peter Munk
“Surveillance breeds conformity.” Gleen Greenwald
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.” Tim Ferriss
“Embedding the idea of original sin in a nation, is the best possible way to breed self-doubt – it suggests you can do little by way of good, because you were rotten from the start.” Douglas Murray