Stuart Bobb

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Stuart’s favorite books

The Four Pillars of Investing, Second Edition by William J. Bernstein

How to Measure Anything by Douglas W. Hubbard

Christianity's Dangerous Idea by Alister E. McGrath

The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street by John Steele Gordon

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

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Stuart’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (21)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (247)
did-not-finish‎ (2)
history‎ (74)
american-history‎ (42)
non-fiction‎ (39)
military-history‎ (35)
world-war-2‎ (19)
19th-century‎ (17)
biography‎ (16)
psychology‎ (16)

science‎ (14)
world-war-ii‎ (14)
world-war-two‎ (12)
economics‎ (11)
biology‎ (10)
european-history‎ (10)
cold-war‎ (9)
human-behavior‎ (9)
theology‎ (9)
18th-century‎ (8)
finance‎ (8)
foreign-policy‎ (7)

memoir‎ (7)
politics‎ (7)
religion‎ (7)
world-war-i‎ (7)
ww1‎ (7)
behavioral-economics‎ (6)
christianity‎ (6)
decision-making‎ (6)
disasters‎ (6)
germany‎ (6)
leadership‎ (6)
medical-researchers‎ (6)

physics‎ (6)
american-culture‎ (5)
bond-markets‎ (5)
mathematics‎ (5)
probability‎ (5)
submarines‎ (5)
wall-street‎ (5)
war‎ (5)
bias‎ (4)
civil-war‎ (4)
doughlas-macarthur‎ (4)
energy‎ (4)

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Stuart’s Quotes

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

tags: philosophy

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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems

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“It was a good story, that of yours,” said Beorn, “but I like it still better now I am sure it is true." The Hobbit”
― JRR Tolkien

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“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
― Douglas W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

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“People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves.”
― Seth Godin

tags: inspirational

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