Quotes - Akhil Sood (akhilsood) (India) Showing 1-30 of 98

#1

“The most fundamental constraint is limited time”
― Gary S. Becker

#2

“How to find a good spouse?
-the best single way is to deserve a good spouse.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

tags: love, married-life, spouse

156 likes

#3

“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of
undeserving people.”
― Charles T. Munger

tags: success

215 likes

#4

“Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group…then to hell with them.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

tags: wisdom

113 likes

#5

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: business

557 likes

#6

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: planning

406 likes

#7

“Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: finance, money

182 likes

#8

“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
― Warren Buffett

224 likes

#9

“You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: financial

134 likes

#10

“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. ”
― Warren Buffett

149 likes

#11

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: scenario-planning

74 likes

#12

“If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: poker-patsy

94 likes

#13

“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.”
― Warren Buffett

121 likes

#14

“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”
― Warren Buffett

111 likes

#15

“What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”
― Warren Buffett

113 likes

#16

“You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.”
― Warren Buffett

68 likes

#17

“Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: investing, warren-buffett

101 likes

#18

“Cynical as it may seem, easy credit has been used as a palliative throughout history by governments that are unable to address the deeper anxieties of the middle class directly.”
― Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

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#20

“I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.”
― George Soros

52 likes

#21

“It's not whether you're right or wrong, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.”
― George Soros

tags: george-soros

50 likes

#22

“Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.”
― Jim Rogers, A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

tags: politic

7 likes

#23

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: psychology, science, social-behavior

929 likes

#24

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: focusing-illusion

555 likes

#25

“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

387 likes

#26

“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology

tags: happiness, misery, money

185 likes

#27

“The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: future, prediction, psychology

205 likes

#28

“Good questions outrank easy answers.”
― Paul A. Samuelson

19 likes

#29

“The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek

75 likes

#30

“I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope.”
― Friedrich August von Hayek

tags: economics, politics

57 likes

#31

“While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
― Friedrich A. von Hayek, The Mirage of Social Justice

52 likes

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