Matt Dominguez > Matt's Quotes

“Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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

“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.”
― Warren Buffet

“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”
― Warren Buffet

“Napoleon’s definition of a military genius was, “The man who can do the average thing when all those around him are going crazy.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“progress happens too slowly to notice, but setbacks happen too quickly to ignore.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

“Growth is driven by compounding, which always takes time. Destruction is driven by single points of failure, which can happen in seconds, and loss of confidence, which can happen in an instant.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

“Nothing is as good or as bad as it seems.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Things that have never happened before happen all the time.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“I love Voltaire’s observation that “History never repeats itself; man always does.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Using your money to buy time and options has a lifestyle benefit few luxury goods can compete with.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Risk is what’s left over when you think you’ve thought of everything.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“A mindset that can be paranoid and optimistic at the same time is hard to maintain, because seeing things as black or white takes less effort than accepting nuance. But you need short-term paranoia to keep you alive long enough to exploit long-term optimism. Jesse Livermore figured this out the hard way.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Savings can be created by spending less. You can spend less if you desire less. And you will desire less if you care less about what others think of you.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Everything has a price, but not all prices appear on labels.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“A good definition of an investing genius is the man or woman who can do the average thing when all those around them are going crazy. Tails drive everything.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“we tell ourselves stories to fill in the gaps of what are effectively blind spots.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Everything in finance is data within the context of expectations.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“A plan is only useful if it can survive reality. And a future filled with unknowns is everyone’s reality.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Happiness, as it’s said, is just results minus expectations.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“The correct lesson to learn from surprises is that the world is surprising.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
― Walt Disney

“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
― Walt Disney

“What stress really does, though, is deplete willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions.”
― Roy F. Baumeister, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

“The best way to reduce stress in your life is to stop screwing up.”
― Roy F. Baumeister, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

“the unconscious is asking the conscious mind to make a plan.”
― Roy F. Baumeister, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

“Restraining sexual impulses takes energy, and so does creative work. If you pour energy into your art, you have less available to restrain your libido.”
― Roy F. Baumeister, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

“lock yourself into a virtuous path.”
― Roy F. Baumeister, Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength

“Many research findings show that most Americans already hold inflated opinions of themselves.”
― Roy F Baumeister

“As a general pattern, suffering
stimulates a quest for meaningful explanation.”
― Roy F. Baumeister, Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty