Marvin Ma

“A 19-year-old with this sort of foresight and life plan was truly unprecedented and typical of his anything-but-average youth, which would explain his drive and obsession to get things done, and now.
‘For every new day, a new invention.’
Surprisingly, Son had managed to pull his invention scheme off, thanks largely to combining pre-existing things into something new. To facilitate this, he had written down random nouns in English – ‘tangerine’, ‘spike’, ‘memory’ – on cards. Once he had amassed a deck of around 300 cards, he would pull three out of the stack, turn them over, and then see whether or not the words he had chosen could be combined into a new product. The three words could be completely nonsensical together, but could still produce good ideas, no matter how eccentric”
― Atsuo Inoue, Aiming High: Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and Disrupting Silicon Valley

“When you view the world as a series of outputs, you form opinions. But when you view the world as a series of systems, you form strategies”
― Channing Allen

“I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Make plans like an adult and believe in them like a child”
― Jim Rohn