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"Better roughly right than precisely wrong"
- Keynes
"The strongest teams have a lot of diversity of thought but do not have much diversity of values or goals."
- Sam Altman
"You can't learn the quality of a decision from the outcome"
- C. Jackson Grayson Jr.
"The only thing worse than losing is not playing"
- Howard Marks (probably not but who I heard it from)
"The present is theirs. The future, for which I really worked, is mine."
- Nicola Tesla
"No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future"
- Ian Wilson
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is absurd"
- Voltaire
"You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit"
- Harry Truman
"I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job"
- Darwin Smith, Kimberly Clark CEO, Good to Great
"The more you smile, the more you smile"
- Sign at the San Diego Airport
"Culture is how employees hearts and stomachs feel about Monday morning on Sunday night"
- Bill Marklein
"Be quick but don't hurry"
- Heard in talk at a conference
"The cowards never started and the weak died along the way – that leaves us."
- Phil Knight
"Increase your surface area for serendipity"
- Shaan Puri
"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized"
- Daniel Burnham, Chicago Architect
"It is better to remember the obvious than to grasp the esoteric"
- Charlie Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack
"The company that needs a new machine tool and hasn't bought it is already paying for it"
- Charlie (via a Warner & Swasey ad from the 50s)
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