Sign in with Facebook
“I was targeting good real estate assets overburdened by excessive debt. Well, I began seeing similar scenarios unfold in the corporate world and realized I could provide equity to those companies for a stake at a discounted price, and that would help them position themselves for when the market recovered.”
― Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel
― Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel
“There’s a line from an old movie, Wheeler Dealers: “You don’t go wheeling and dealing for the money, you do it for fun. Money’s just a way of keeping score.” And that’s how I see it. I’ve always been much more drawn to the experience.”
― Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel
― Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel
“If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.”
― Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
― Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
“This has always been a fatal flaw in U.S. real estate: the volume of development has been related to the availability of funds, not to demand.”
― Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel
― Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel
“You would think that this would be whether the entrepreneur’s idea is actually a good one. But finding a good idea is apparently not all that hard. Finding an entrepreneur who can execute a good idea is a different matter entirely. One needs a person who can take an idea from proposal to reality, work the long hours, build a team, handle the pressures and setbacks, manage technical and people problems alike, and stick with the effort for years on end without getting distracted or going insane. Such people are rare and extremely hard to spot.”
― The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
― The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Kofi’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kofi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,144 books
|
38 friends
384 books
|
151 friends
124 books
|
9 friends
687 books
|
110 friends
81 books
|
22 friends
39 books
|
129 friends
41 books
|
54 friends
31 books
|
17 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Kofi
Lists liked by Kofi
