Ahmed

“For many of us, trying to outguess the market is a game that is much too much fun to give up. Even if you were convinced you would not do any better than average, I'm sure that most of you with speculative temperaments would still want to keep on playing the game of selecting individual stocks with at least some portion of the money you invest.”
― Burton G. Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

“In Conversation, Resist the Temptation to Reflexively Add Value: The most important part of creating vulnerability often resides not in what you say but in what you do not say. This means having the willpower to forgo easy opportunities to offer solutions and make suggestions. Skilled listeners do not interrupt with phrases like Hey, here’s an idea or Let me tell you what worked for me in a similar situation because they understand that it’s not about them.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

“as the public realized that an excess of paper currency creates no real wealth, only inflation.”
― Burton G. Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

“Aim for Candor; Avoid Brutal Honesty: Giving honest feedback is tricky, because it can easily result in people feeling hurt or demoralized. One useful distinction, made most clearly at Pixar, is to aim for candor and avoid brutal honesty. By aiming for candor—feedback that is smaller, more targeted, less personal, less judgmental, and equally impactful—it’s easier to maintain a sense of safety and belonging in the group.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups