William Yip > William's Quotes

“Though I am long dead as you read this, explorer, I offer to you a valediction. Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have the right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same.”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation

“Slow steady progress can erode any challenge over time.”
― Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.”
― Elon Musk

“Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.” – Jack Ma”
― Think Maverick, Entrepreneur: Jack Ma, Alibaba and the 40 Thieves of Success

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”
― Jordan Belfort

“Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― William Durant

“Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Investor Howard Marks once talked about an investor whose annual results were never ranked in the top quartile, but over a fourteen-year period he was in the top 4 percent of all investors. If he keeps those mediocre returns up for another ten years he may be in the top 1 percent of his peers—one of the greatest of his generation despite being unremarkable in any given year…If you understand the math behind compounding you realize the most important question is not ‘How can I earn the highest returns?’ It’s ‘What are the best returns I can sustain for the longest period of time?’

Little changes compounded for a long time create extraordinary changes.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Someone somewhere right now is inventing or discovering something that will utterly change the future.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“Everything worth pursuing comes with a little pain. The trick is not minding that it hurts.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“In today’s hyperlinked world, solving problems anywhere, solves problems everywhere.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think

“At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.”
― Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles