I've never cared much for destinations. The idea of landing is too finite for my imagination and sense of song. Give me a direction and a sixteen-lane highway with room to swerve and explore along the way. Like jazz, I prefer to see life as a river.
- from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
The IMF is quite public about its operations and objectives. At the same time, it is little understood even by experts, in part because of the unique role it performs and the highly technical jargon it uses in doing so. Specialized university training at institutions like the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., is a typical admission ticket to a position at the IMF. This combination of openness and opaqueness is disarming; the IMF is transparently nontransparent.
- from The Death of Money book by James Rickards
There are fads and styles in the stock market just as there are in women's clothes. These can, for as much as several years at a time, produce distortions in the relationship of existing prices to real values almost as great as those faced by the merchant who can hardly give away a rack full of the highest quality knee-length dresses in a year when fashion decrees that they be worn to the ankle.
- from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits book by Philip Fisher
Once a business gets up and running, it's very easy to get trapped in all kinds of things that have nothing to do with making money. The solution is simple: Focus on the money.
- from The $100 Startup book by Chris Guillebeau
At their core, all economic models are systems of distribution: deciding who gets what, when, and how.
- from The End of the World is Just the Beginning book by Peter Zeihan
While history can be told pretty precisely, the future is exactly the opposite. I am not aware of a single case of the future being foretold accurately in any detail.
- from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order book by Ray Dalio
The truth is that war is never tidy and always results in unintended consequences, even when launched against seemingly powerless countries on behalf of a righteous cause.
- from A Promised Land book by Barack Obama
The longer you live, the more you realise that nothing is fixed. Everyone will become a refugee if they live long enough. Everyone would realise their nationality means little in the long run. Everyone would see their worldviews challenged and disproved. Everyone would realise that the thing that defines a human being is being a human.
- from How to Stop Time book by Matt Haig
Most people need a ladder and a telescope to make sense of two plus two. That's why it's usually more trouble than it's worth to explain yourself.
- from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
- from 1984 book by George Orwell