Money and Finance
- Repost: Welcome Disagreement. Avoid Argument.
Warren Buffett has stated that throughout his and Charlie Munger’s long relationship, they’ve had disagreements but have never had an argument. In How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie made the case that disagreement is good because...
- Paul Depodesta: 7 Lessons For Developing Real Metrics
Thanks to Lincoln for passing this along. Depodesta said the best way to establish real metrics for a business is to ask the naive question, and then he laid out seven lessons he learned about developing useful metrics. 1. The first question to ask, he...
- Welcome Disagreement. Avoid Argument.
Warren Buffett has stated that throughout his and Charlie Munger’s long relationship, they’ve had disagreements but have never had an argument. In How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie made the case that disagreement is good because...
- Thomas Jefferson Quote
Here's a great quote from Thomas Jefferson that I came across: “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” –Thomas...
- Ben Franklin On Humility (and Some Crafty Advice On Persuasion)
From his autobiography: My list of virtues contain'd at first but twelve; but a Quaker friend having kindly informed me that I was generally thought proud; that my pride show'd itself frequently in conversation; that I was not content with being...
Money and Finance
Thomas Paine quote
“It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.” –Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
- Repost: Welcome Disagreement. Avoid Argument.
Warren Buffett has stated that throughout his and Charlie Munger’s long relationship, they’ve had disagreements but have never had an argument. In How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie made the case that disagreement is good because...
- Paul Depodesta: 7 Lessons For Developing Real Metrics
Thanks to Lincoln for passing this along. Depodesta said the best way to establish real metrics for a business is to ask the naive question, and then he laid out seven lessons he learned about developing useful metrics. 1. The first question to ask, he...
- Welcome Disagreement. Avoid Argument.
Warren Buffett has stated that throughout his and Charlie Munger’s long relationship, they’ve had disagreements but have never had an argument. In How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie made the case that disagreement is good because...
- Thomas Jefferson Quote
Here's a great quote from Thomas Jefferson that I came across: “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” –Thomas...
- Ben Franklin On Humility (and Some Crafty Advice On Persuasion)
From his autobiography: My list of virtues contain'd at first but twelve; but a Quaker friend having kindly informed me that I was generally thought proud; that my pride show'd itself frequently in conversation; that I was not content with being...