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“Good intentions don't work, mechanisms do!"
That's because people already have good intentions when the problems cropped up in the first place.
"If you don't change the underlying conditions that created a problem, you should expect the problem to reoccur!"
E.g. of Good intentions:
- We must try harder!
- Next time, try to remember to improve the process to solve the problem or the mistake...”
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
That's because people already have good intentions when the problems cropped up in the first place.
"If you don't change the underlying conditions that created a problem, you should expect the problem to reoccur!"
E.g. of Good intentions:
- We must try harder!
- Next time, try to remember to improve the process to solve the problem or the mistake...”
― Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
“In chess, you only win because your opponent made the last mistake.”
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“Any life, & any life's work, is a hidden journey, a secret code, deciphered in fits & starts. The details only given truth by the whole, & the whole dependent on the details."
"...having the powerful characteristics of captaincy or leadership of any form is almost always an outward sign of a person inhabiting their physical body & the deeper elements of their own nature.”
― Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
"...having the powerful characteristics of captaincy or leadership of any form is almost always an outward sign of a person inhabiting their physical body & the deeper elements of their own nature.”
― Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
“Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.”
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“On 3 timeless ideas for investing
Benjamin Graham, three fundamentally basic ideas:
1. You should look at stocks as part of ownership of a business.
2. You should look at market fluctuations in terms of his "Mr. Market" example & make them your friend rather than your enemy by essentially profiting from folly rather participating in it, & finally,
3. The 3 most important words in investing are "margin of safety" - ...always building a 15,000 pound bridge if you're going to be driving 10,000 pound truck across it...”
― Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger
Benjamin Graham, three fundamentally basic ideas:
1. You should look at stocks as part of ownership of a business.
2. You should look at market fluctuations in terms of his "Mr. Market" example & make them your friend rather than your enemy by essentially profiting from folly rather participating in it, & finally,
3. The 3 most important words in investing are "margin of safety" - ...always building a 15,000 pound bridge if you're going to be driving 10,000 pound truck across it...”
― Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger
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