Sankar Madhavan

“If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.”
― Guy Spier, The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment

“Nothing, nothing at all, matters as much as bringing the right people into your life. They will teach you everything you need to know. —Guy Spier”
― Gautam Baid, The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated

“the world’s interactions with Africa are not necessarily motivated by altruism, but by the self-interest of states seeking to maximize their opportunities and minimize their costs, often at the expense of those who are not in a position to do either.”
― Wangari Maathai, The Challenge for Africa