Ben Lackey

“Excessive collaboration adds time (but not value) to the process.”
― Brent Adamson, The Challenger Customer: Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results

“Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend and my trusted confidant and my passionate lover to boot, and we live twice as long. So we come to one person, and we basically are asking them to give us what once an entire village used to provide: Give me belonging, give me identity, give me continuity, but give me transcendence and mystery and awe all in one. Give me comfort, give me edge. Give me novelty, give me familiarity. Give me predictability, give me surprise. And we think it’s a given, and toys and lingerie are going to save us with that.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance: An Investigation

“Let every man divide his money into three parts, and invest a third in land, a third in business, and a third let him keep in reserve. —Talmud (c. 1200 BC–AD 500)”
― Roger C. Gibson, Asset Allocation: Balancing Financial Risk

“Cactus finches do more with cactus than Plains Indians did with buffalo. They nest in cactus; they sleep in cactus; they often copulate in cactus; they drink cactus nectar; they eat cactus flowers, cactus pollen, and cactus seeds. In return they pollinate the cactus, like bees.”
― Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time