Prateek Gupta

“When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“When looking at the same sky, people in mature industries see clouds where people in immature industries see pie.”
― Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market

“Yet none of these things exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“How many young college graduates have taken demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue their real interests when they are thirty-five? But by the time they reach that age, they have large mortgages, children to school, houses in the suburbs that necessitate at least two cars per family, and a sense that life is not worth living without really good wine and expensive holidays abroad. What are they supposed to do, go back to digging up roots? No, they double their efforts and keep slaving away.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind