Sergey Kapustin

“The scientist’s behavior while facing the refutation of his ideas has been studied in depth as part of the so-called attribution bias. You attribute your successes to skills, but your failures to randomness. This explains why these scientists attributed their failures to the “ten sigma” rare event, indicative of the thought that they were right but that luck played against them. Why? It is a human heuristic that makes us actually believe so in order not to kill our self-esteem and keep us going against adversity.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“What sets the best suppliers apart is not the quality of their products, but the value of their insight.”
― Matthew Dixon Brent Adamson

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“90 percent of all Gillette shavers are bought by women for the men in their lives”
― Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy