Allie

“Fear is the mind-killer….”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Nothing grants wisdom like loss.”
― Pierce Brown, Light Bringer

“[During a market panic] there are many casualties, cruel transfers of individual fortunes. Yet he who possesses even a modicum of unimpaired capital is as one who watches the sand run down in an hourglass, while fully aware that he may, at the given moment, turn the glass over and begin the process anew.”
― William J. Bernstein, The Four Pillars of Investing, Second Edition: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio

“To be understood, he’d speak the one language the powerful share with the powerless, the language of pain, fear, and loss. The powerful had to be shown that people can only be pushed so close to the flame before they catch fire and burn everything down.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance