David Clark > Quotes

“People are trying to be smart—all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it’s harder than most people think.”
― David Clark, Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark

“...While grace does do away with the need for good works, it’s grace which also makes good works truly possible. If good works don’t play into your salvation, then doing them is a sheer act of love, both for those they benefit and to God. It’s a way of solving the conundrum of how can a good work be truly good if the doer of the work expects to benefit from it in any way."
-David Clark”
― David Clark

“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day—if you live long enough—most people get what they deserve.”
― David Clark, Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark

“I had witnessed first-hand that once I changed my vision of who I was in my career, my actions and behaviors in my work life changed immediately, permanently. Conversely, other times when I just tried to modify what I was doing daily in my behavior (follow up more on calls, be more organized, etc.), those changes were fleeting and I ended up right back where I started. The bottom line is this—we act in ways that support our true image of who we are. We do it without effort or struggle; we simple “are that person.”
― David Clark, Out There: A Story of Ultra Recovery

“I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn’t like it; indeed, especially when one doesn’t like it.”
― David Clark, Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark

“When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing.”
― David Clark, WTF!: Life Is Not Always What It Seems

“Demokrasilerin enflasyona eğilimli olduğunu düşünüyorum çünkü politikacılar doğal olarak harcama yapacaklar; para basma gücüne sahipler ve parayı oy almak için kullanacaklar.”
― David Clark, Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark

“During his years of institutionalization, he read a shocking three hundred and thirty-one books.”
― David Clark, The Ghosts of Miller's Crossing

“Who we are is who we choose to be in this very moment.”
― David Clark, EAT SH*T AND DIE: Radical Rehab for Food Junkies and Sugar Addicts

“Using guilt is not productive. Appealing to the greatness of others is what works for Warren, and it will work for you.”
― David Clark, Warren Buffett Management Secrets

“As I see it, my job is to maximize my talents and experiences in a way that will help make the world better—to carry my own weight in impacting the universal trajectory of mankind.”
― David Clark, Out There: A Story of Ultra Recovery

“Addicts know the voices in their heads can’t be trusted, and that is precisely why there are so many of us out there in the ultra marathon community, moving forward one step at a time. And that’s what Nico and I did—one step followed by another until we got to Hope Pass.”
― David Clark, Broken Open: Mountains, Demons, Treadmills And a Search for Nirvana

“Diversification is a way to protect financial consultants and stock brokers from ever looking really bad, but it also stops them from looking really good as well. What happens with broad diversification—holding a portfolio of, say, fifty or more different stocks—is that the winners will be canceled out by the losers, just as the losers will be canceled out by the winners. Diversification creates a situation that basically mimics the market or an index fund. An adviser who counsels diversification never looks very good or very bad, just average.”
― David Clark, Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark

“If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.” -Daniel Goleman”
― David Clark, Emotional Intelligence: A 21- Day Step by Step Guide to Mastering Social Skills, Improve Your Relationships, and Boost Your EQ

“We may never know, with any certainty, what will produce the longest and healthiest life. But there are a few things we can all agree on… maybe. Processed foods are the single biggest offender in terms of burglarizing our health. And as such, they should be put on the list of known predators and violent offenders.”
― David Clark, Broken Open: Mountains, Demons, Treadmills And a Search for Nirvana

“After all, the object isn't to become so mentally strong that we can suffer through any experience; the object is to become so peaceful inside that we choose not to suffer when the pain comes.”
― David Clark, Broken Open: Mountains, Demons, Treadmills And a Search for Nirvana

“There is a special feeling of knowing that nothing must die for me to thrive.”
― David Clark, Broken Open: Mountains, Demons, Treadmills And a Search for Nirvana

“INCENTIVES – “From all business, my favorite case on incentives is Federal Express. The heart and soul of their system—which creates the integrity of the product—is having all their airplanes come to one place in the middle of the night and shift all the packages from plane to plane. If there are delays, the whole operation can’t deliver a product full of integrity to Federal Express customers. And it was always screwed up. They could never get it done on time. They tried everything—moral suasion, threats, you name it. And nothing worked. Finally, somebody got the idea to pay all these people not so much an hour, but so much a shift—and when it’s all done, they can go home. Well, their problems cleared up overnight.” – Here Charlie is talking about incentives. All of us who have held hourly jobs know that if workers are paid by the hour they will work more slowly than if they are paid them by the job. Why? Because if they are paid by the hour, they have an incentive to work more slowly in order to put more hours on the clock and make more money. But if they are paid by the job, there is an incentive to work quickly so they can get onto the next job and make more money. Federal Express aligned management’s goals with employee incentives. With hourly pay their employees were never in a hurry, but when pay was given for a specific task—getting a plane loaded—suddenly they were in a rush to get the job done. The key wasn’t paying workers by the task or shift; the key was letting them go home if they finished early, which was a kind of financial reward in that they were getting paid for the full shift even if they left early.”
― David Clark, Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark

“How we view ourselves and define ourselves is perhaps the most essential paradigm we have as human beings. It determines all of our actions and reactions.”
― David Clark, Out There: A Story of Ultra Recovery

“Its not how you start your life its how you finish it”
― David Clark

“Don’t ever sell yourself short,” I said to little Davey and Emily as they looked up into my eyes. My face was covered in salt and sweat and grime as they looked at me. “Do you understand?” I asked. “I want you to know that it’s possible to be at the very brink of yourself, to feel like you can’t take another step, that you are done for good—but if you believe and move forward with faith, you have strength waiting for you inside… don’t quit before the miracle happens. Make sense?”
― David Clark, Out There: A Story of Ultra Recovery

“-The initial letter in the profile means either introversion or extroversion. -The second letter in the mix will end up being either be the letter “S” to stand for sensing or the letter “N” for intuition. -Next, the third letter is either an “F” to stand for feeler or the letter “T” to stand for thinker. -Finally, the fourth letter is either a “P” to stand for perceiver or “J” for judger.”
― David Clark, How to Analyze People: How to Read People Instantly Using Psychological Techniques, Body Language, and Personality Types

“Honor”
― David Clark, Among Us: The Skeld

“If you want to change yourself long term, you have to change the way you think and change the way you perceive the world. You have to come up with a new set of eyes to view yourself with. You need a new way of communicating internally with yourself and you need to ask yourself different questions.”
― David Clark, Out There: A Story of Ultra Recovery

“I stood in the shower for longer than I ever remembered doing before and let the”
― David Clark, Coven Cove: The Complete Series

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― David Clark

“It’s the strong swimmers who drown.’ ”
― David Clark, Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark