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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Things always become obvious after the fact”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“What I learned on my own I still remember”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
― Henry Ford

“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
― Henry Ford

“Every corpse on Mount Everest was once an extremely motivated person”
― Anonymous

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

“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing”
― Warren Buffett

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
― Warren Buffett

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

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”
― Warren Buffett

“You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
― Warren Buffett

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

“Let us try for once not to be right”
― Tristan Tzara

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Everything popular is wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Experience is the worst teacher. It gives the test before giving the lesson.”
― Anonymous

“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
― Karl R. Popper

“History has no meaning.”
― Karl R. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

“A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“The degeneration of philosophical schools in its turn is the consequence of the mistaken belief that one can philosophize without having been compelled to philosophize by problems outside philosophy. … Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay. … [emphasis mine] These roots are easily forgotten by philosophers who “study” philosophy instead of being forced into philosophy by the pressure of nonphilosophical problems.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
― Bob Ross

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
― Winston S. Churchill