Money and Finance
From Poor Charlie's Almanack:
- Finding The Balance Between Curiosity And Focus...
From Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor: "Curiosity can provide both fun and wisdom, and occasionally trouble." —CHARLIE MUNGER, POOR CHARLIE’S ALMANACK, 2005 Curiosity about life and restraint about difficult decisions are part of Munger’s...
- "...the Bigger Game Is Being So Good At What You Do That Nobody Can Argue With Your Results"
Greene is accustomed to defending his first book, but I suspect he's trying to move beyond it with his latest, Mastery, which studies how talent is developed, using a heavily researched slew of examples including Einstein, Darwin, Goethe and John...
- Albert Einstein Quote
“Don’t think about why you question, simply don’t stop questioning. Don’t worry about what you can’t answer, and don’t try to explain what you can’t know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren’t you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries...
- An Investing Principles Checklist From Poor Charlie
From Poor Charlie's Almanack: - An Investing Principles Checklist- Risk – All investment evaluations should begin by measuring risk, especially reputational Incorporate an appropriate margin of safetyAvoid dealing with people of questionable characterInsist...
- Keep It Simple, Fool
During the height of his career, Albert Einstein was in the middle of hearing his notes dictated to him by his secretary when he stopped and asked her, "Did I really write that? I could have put that so much simpler." - Just as Einstein was able to simplify...
Money and Finance
Objectivity...
From Poor Charlie's Almanack:
The life of Darwin demonstrates how a turtle may outrun a hare, aided by extreme objectivity, which helps the objective person end up like the only player without a blindfold in a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
If you minimize objectivity, you ignore not only a lesson from Darwin but also one from Einstein. Einstein said that his successful theories came from "Curiosity, concentration, perseverance, and self-criticism." And by self-criticism, he meant the testing and destruction of his own well-loved ideas.
- Finding The Balance Between Curiosity And Focus...
From Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor: "Curiosity can provide both fun and wisdom, and occasionally trouble." —CHARLIE MUNGER, POOR CHARLIE’S ALMANACK, 2005 Curiosity about life and restraint about difficult decisions are part of Munger’s...
- "...the Bigger Game Is Being So Good At What You Do That Nobody Can Argue With Your Results"
Greene is accustomed to defending his first book, but I suspect he's trying to move beyond it with his latest, Mastery, which studies how talent is developed, using a heavily researched slew of examples including Einstein, Darwin, Goethe and John...
- Albert Einstein Quote
“Don’t think about why you question, simply don’t stop questioning. Don’t worry about what you can’t answer, and don’t try to explain what you can’t know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren’t you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries...
- An Investing Principles Checklist From Poor Charlie
From Poor Charlie's Almanack: - An Investing Principles Checklist- Risk – All investment evaluations should begin by measuring risk, especially reputational Incorporate an appropriate margin of safetyAvoid dealing with people of questionable characterInsist...
- Keep It Simple, Fool
During the height of his career, Albert Einstein was in the middle of hearing his notes dictated to him by his secretary when he stopped and asked her, "Did I really write that? I could have put that so much simpler." - Just as Einstein was able to simplify...