Money and Finance
From Meditations:
- Marcus Aurelius Quote
From Meditations: Given the material we’re made of, what’s the sanest thing that we can do or say? Whatever it may be, you can do or say it. Don’t pretend that anything’s stopping you. You’ll never stop complaining until you feel the same...
- Alain De Botton On The Stoics
Link to article: The Great Philosophers 2: The Stoics ‘Stoicism’ was a philosophy that flourished for some 400 years in Ancient Greece and Rome, gaining widespread support among all classes of society. It had one overwhelming and highly practical...
- Marcus Aurelius Quote
“Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone—those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: the “what” is in constant flux, the “why” has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what’s right...
- Value Investing, The Chetan Parikh Way - Part 1
From Safal Niveshak. Link to: Value Investing, the Chetan Parikh Way – Part 1 Update: Part 2, Part 3……… I have a special affinity for this response from the interview:Whilst Zeno of Citium, a Greek philosopher, founded the Stoic school of philosophy,...
- Nassim Taleb On Stoics And Stoicism
From Fooled by Randomness:"Having control over randomness can be expressed in the manner in which one acts in the small and the large. Recall that epic heroes were judged by their actions, not by the results. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how...
Money and Finance
Marcus Aurelius quote
From Meditations:
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.
Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you.
Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
- Marcus Aurelius Quote
From Meditations: Given the material we’re made of, what’s the sanest thing that we can do or say? Whatever it may be, you can do or say it. Don’t pretend that anything’s stopping you. You’ll never stop complaining until you feel the same...
- Alain De Botton On The Stoics
Link to article: The Great Philosophers 2: The Stoics ‘Stoicism’ was a philosophy that flourished for some 400 years in Ancient Greece and Rome, gaining widespread support among all classes of society. It had one overwhelming and highly practical...
- Marcus Aurelius Quote
“Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone—those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: the “what” is in constant flux, the “why” has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what’s right...
- Value Investing, The Chetan Parikh Way - Part 1
From Safal Niveshak. Link to: Value Investing, the Chetan Parikh Way – Part 1 Update: Part 2, Part 3……… I have a special affinity for this response from the interview:Whilst Zeno of Citium, a Greek philosopher, founded the Stoic school of philosophy,...
- Nassim Taleb On Stoics And Stoicism
From Fooled by Randomness:"Having control over randomness can be expressed in the manner in which one acts in the small and the large. Recall that epic heroes were judged by their actions, not by the results. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how...