Nicolas Acton

“Matt Levine, a Bloomberg columnist who writes a detailed and witty daily email dissected by Wall Street bankers, had been on vacation when the prospectus went live. The following Monday morning, he wrote in his email that the “We” trademark news was “the news item that caused me to absolutely lose my mind—the item that, if I were a slightly more dedicated financial columnist, would have had me on the next helicopter back to the office.”
― Eliot Brown, The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid”
― Valery Legasov

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
― Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power