This is a really important point to understand: when you aren’t trying to avoid failure, fear loses its foothold. The courage to take a chance is half the battle. The other half? Viewing failure as a teacher and not an enemy.
“injustices inflicted on individuals by government action in the interest of a group are disregarded with an indifference hardly distinguishable from callousness; and the grossest violations of the most elementary rights of the individual, such as are involved in the compulsory transfer of populations, are more and more often countenanced even by supposed liberals.”
― The Road to Serfdom
― The Road to Serfdom
“Those of us who survived those days went on to fly and fight with an appreciation of life that can be known only by those who have been in combat. Laughter was as profound as sadness. Friendships deepened. Every moment of each day felt exactly right, and the edges of time seemed tinged by light.”
― Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
― Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
“The Managerial Revolution,”
― The Road to Serfdom
― The Road to Serfdom
“The machinery of monopoly becomes identical with the machinery of the state, and the state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general.”
― The Road to Serfdom
― The Road to Serfdom
“What is called economic power, while it can be an instrument of coercion, is, in the hands of private individuals, never exclusive or complete power, never power over the whole life of a person. But centralized as an instrument of political power it creates a degree of dependence scarcely distinguishable from slavery.”
― The Road to Serfdom
― The Road to Serfdom
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