Every exit is an entry somewhere else. ~ Tom Stoppard
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. —The Matri
When somebody shows you who they are, believe them. –Chris Rea
Winners do what losers won't. –Ano
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. –Anon
"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." –Steven Wright
I would rather have roses on my table than gems on my neck. –Anon
Don't Postpone Tomorrow For Some Imaginary Future.
If you don't respect yourself, you certainly won't respect me.
A true man measures himself against his personal goals and challenges, not against his friends. –Jon Rappaport
Married and bored or single and lonely. –Anon
"He never wanted to believe. He wanted to know." –Carl Sagan
“If one life has breathed easier because you have lived, you have succeeded.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty. –Kahlil Gibran
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. –Kahlil Gibran
And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often times filled with your tears. –Kahlil Gibran
"The present moment is a powerful Goddess" –Goethe
The most important thing you wear is the expression on your face. –Anon
There is nothing like biting off more than you can chew and chewing it anyway. –Mark Burnet
The most dangerous thing in the world is a child's mind in a man's body. –Michael Tomlinso
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." – Anais Nin
"Remember- Man is the dream of the dolphins:" Lost at Last
Maybe, just maybe, you should listen to the advice the old fisherman gave me when I was young. "If you aren't catching anything - perhaps you're using the wrong bait" –Anon
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. ~ W. Somerset Maugham (Great Novelists and Their Works)
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did. ~ Unknown
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education. ~ John Locke (Something Concerning Education)
"Think forever not of yourselves O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren, and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground." –Words spoken by the Peacemaker, Founder of the Iroquois confederacy. Circa 1000 AD
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes." Frank Lloyd Wright
'Take Care of our own and leave the rest of the world alone" –Siggy
The father of the theory of relativity apparently did not want to be bound up with it eternally. In a 1921 letter to Elsa, Einstein confided, "Soon I'll be fed up with the relativity. Even such a thing fades away when one is too involved with it.
"You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true." -- Spock (Amok Time)"
Today, more than ever, luxury is about trust. We live in an era when far too many...of our traditional icons of credibility...have proven unworthy of our devotion. Luxury car buyers will return...again and again...to a product or a company they trust. And when a luxury product proves trust worthy, it will draw-in new, first-time buyers...looking to minimize risk. --Denny Clements, Group Vice President and General Manager, Lexus Division. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A.
Our business model is based on two fundamentals - building a perfect product and delivering the perfect customer experience. --Lexus (Fletcher Jones)
The best things happen by accident. --John Ford
I knew a man who once said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
What we do in life echoes in eternity.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. –Kahlil Gibran
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. ~ Ivan Turgenev
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. –David Starr Jones
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. —Oscar Wilde
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. –Kahlil Gibran
A fool is somebody who defines a problem in a way it can't be solved. –Les Gelb
Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it. —Nathan Rosenberg
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. —Pablo Picasso
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks. ~ Will Durant
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. From “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk Jr.
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of actionand follow it to an end requires courage. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half the names on the Vietnam Memorial wall were added after America's leaders knew our strategy would not work. –John Kerry
Mend your speech a little, lest it may mar your fortunes. — Shakespeare (King Lear)
Have you ever seen movie credits that use black text on a white background? —Guy Kawasaki
There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking. —Mary Lowry
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. ~ Samuel Johnson (The Rambler, June 6, 1751)
You can never be a total failure because then you would have succeeded at failing. —Jim Hunter.
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action. ~ Louis L'Amour
Wonder and despair are two sides of a spinning coin. When you open yourself to one, you open yourself to the other. You discover a capacity for joy that wasn't in your before. Wonder is the promise of restoration: as deeply as you dive, so may you rise.~ Christina Baldwin (Life's Companion)
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
~ Hubert Humphrey
Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.~ Watterson Lowe
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearl slipping from a broken string. ~ George Prentice
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. —Ludwig van Beethoven
“In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.” Ferdinand Porsche
Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it. —Nathan Rosenberg
If everything is under control, you are going to slow. —Mario Andretti
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (vis-à-vis) Maggie Huckeba
I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
Don't listen to other people's negativity: they filter through their own experiences. Learn to trust your own feelings. ~ Ginger Purdy
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~ Michael Jordan
If scientists were ever going to figure out how to travel through time, wouldn't we now be seeing people from the future?
If you are planning for a year, sow rice. If you are planning for a decade, plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. ~ Chinese proverb
Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are.
That is something you yourself can only discover from within. ~ Thomas Merton (No Man an Island)
You can't always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best. ~ Anita Hill
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. —Robert Byrne
Did you ever notice that women's breast looks just like a Bulls-eye target? —Umberto Ruiz
"Training people on computer systems is stupid. We need to train the systems to work with people." Shai Agassi
Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. –Chuck Berry
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it "Chuck Berry." —John Lennon
If you do something seven times in a row it will become a habit. —Andy Pascal
Now that that's official, we might see Microsoft back on the attack in '06. Unless Google does to Microsoft what Microsoft once did to Netscape. "The biggest problem for Microsoft is that Microsoft sells what Google gives away," Moore says, which hearkens back to the day when Netscape was selling what Microsoft could give away. —Kevin Maney
New game plan in Silicon Valley: launch start-up in the morning, work through lunch, sell company before happy hour, retire. —Kevin Maney
Well begun is half done. —Aristotle
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. —Aldous Huxley
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. —Anon
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. —Anon
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. —Anon
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat. —Anon
Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature. —Anon
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. —Anon
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? —Anon
Great wealth does not make a great man. —Leander Kahney
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. —Anon
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come. –Anon
The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.–Anon
If you desire many things, many things will seem few. —Anon
People want riches they need fulfillment.
Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended. —Anon
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.—Anon
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men. —Anon
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. —Anon
A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ("Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam")
The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is,"embraces the whole of man's being. It is so comprehensive that it reaches out to every condition and circumstance of life. A man is literally what he thinks. His character is the sum of his thoughts. ~ James Allen
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. ~ Tacitus (Annals)
Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance. ~ Milton R. Sapirstein (Paradoxes of Everyday Life)
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. –Anon
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. —Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics. c. 325BC)
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.—Aristotle [Jake's Favorite]
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. –Anon
When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love. ~ Jean Vanier
All the greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insolvable. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. ~ Carl Jung
Time is the best doctor. ~ Yiddish proverb
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.—Anon
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.—Anon
An autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. —Anon
Giving is a joy if we do it in the right spirit. It all depends on whether we think of it as "What can I spare?" or as "What can I share?" ~ Esther Baldwin York
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. —Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. —Aristotle
Friendship is essentially a partnership. —Aristotle
Buddha looked at a butterfly and thought: Am I dreaming of the Butterfly, or is the Butterfly dreaming of me? –Steve Crouch
Our minds are like thousand room mansions, with most of us living in a broom closet in the basement, and our only venture outside our broom closet is to another broom closet across the hall for vacation. —Steve Crouch [Jake's Favorite]
Every day you should prepare yourself to die so that you may live. –Buddha (visa vis Steve Crouch)
They keep you dope with religion, sex and TV, and you think you are so clever, and classless and free, but you are still fucking peasants as far as I can see. A working class hero is something to be. —John Lennon
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still. —Ronald Reagan (Farewell Address. January 11, 1989)
"The entire income tax system was created by Karl Marx." —Ronald Reagan
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.–Anon
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. –Anon
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.–Anon
I drink to make other people interesting.–Anon
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. –Anon
We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.–Anon
Time is generally the best doctor.–Anon
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.–Anon
To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.–Anon
Genius always gives its best at first–prudence at last. –Anon
Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self. ~ M. Basil Pennington
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.–Anon
There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court. –Anon
Violence as a way of achieving justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
This habit of reading ...is your pass to the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for his creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. ~ Anthony Trollope
In the sphere of material things, giving means being rich. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ~ Erich Fromm [Jake's Favorite]
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few people of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own. ~ Seneca (Letters to Lucilius)
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Warren Buffet was asked what the best advice he was given was from his dad: "He taught him to know that what is more important is on his inner score card versus outer scorecard."
Luck is the residue of design. –Frank Lloyd Wright
Courage is grace under preasure. –Earnest Hemingway
Chance favors the prepared mind. –Anon
A delay does not mean defeat. –Anon
Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement. –Anon
If you have nothing to hide, you hide nothing. –Dr. Phil
Those that ghe gods destroy, they first make proud. –Barron Hilton
Warren Buffett on identifying good managers: “I have to look them in the eye, and I have to decide whether they love the money or love the business. It is okay if they love the money, some. They have to love the business. They have to have a passion for it.”
This is you last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill–the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill–you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. –The Matrix [Jake's Favorite]
When investing in a business, I always look for companies with an Enduring Competitive Advantage. –Warren Buffet [Jake's Favorite]
I am nice as long as you allow me to be. –Trish
Intimacy without the burden.
"Are you a Jew? Fucking Jews! The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." –Mel Gibson (Drunk response to officer who pulled him over for DUI)
Every human being is God's child, and if I wish to honor my God I have to honor his children. –Mel Gibson
"A person's life is dyed the color of his imagination." –Marcus Aurelius
"I've been a dreamer and a storyteller since I was a boy. I loved telling stories to my family to get their reactions. I directed about a hundred music videos at the beginning of my career, and experimented with different types of lenses, film and lighting. That taught me each decision makes a difference. I also learned that neither instincts nor style can be taught or bought. Just like Stravinsky was born to be a composer, some people are meant to be filmmakers and every one of us is different. I love feeling challenged and directing films where the actors breathe life into their characters and make them feel like real human beings. Casting is one of the most important things I do, and that includes the cinematographer, production designer and rest of the crew as well as the actors. Every one of them has answers to pieces of the puzzle. My goal is to make every film I direct better than the last one. If you don't challenge yourself, no one else is going to do it for you." –Brett Ratner (Director)
If you cant innovate you immitate.
Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others— white and black— preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence. We can be so thankful that Dr. King raised his mighty eloquence for love and hope rather than for hostility and bitterness. He took the tension he found in our nation, a tension of injustice, and channeled it for the good of America and all her people. Address on the anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King (January 15, 1983)
For a little word, "if" is really big. –Mom
"Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eye are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees anyone whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. and he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den." –Plato, The Republic
Art is not to like or dislike. it is to be appreciated. –Patricia Barrett
"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?" - Lee Iacocca [Jake's Favorite]
Fedral judge orders halt to NSA spy program. "There are no hereditary kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution," U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs wrote, dismissing the Bush administration's argument that the warrantless program falls within the president's inherent wartime powers as commander in chief.
A beatiful woman is one of Gods best creatations. I am just admiring his handiwork. com. –Brad Ellman
A stranger is a freind you just don't know. –Big Audio Dynamite [Jake's Favorite]
There's nothing like playing up the FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) factor to sell products. –Gizmodo
"A planner is a gentle man, with neither sword nor pistol. He walks along most daintily, because his balls are crystal." –Anon
"An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true."
"Part of the problem is our society which judges people on many scales but rarely true accomplishments." Huibert-Aalbers [Jake's Favorite]
Age is nothing but a number. –Dove Chocolate
It's the same thing that causes people to want to be poets, instead of bankers...and I think that's a wonderful thing, and I think that that same spirit can be put into products...and those products can be manufactured and given to people and they can sense that spirit. –Steve Jobs [Jake's Favorite: This really explains apple's approach to detail in design]
Design is the purposeful arrangement of parts. –Anon [Jake's Favorite]
You can have enough money and you can have enough power, but you can never have enough EXPERIENCE." –Jaron Lanier (Virtual reality pioneer)
There is a way to do it better–find it. –Thomas Edison [Jake's Favorite]
Better obsolete faster than stuck in limbo forever. –Anon
Whenever a business behaves irrationally, baseless tradition is usually involved. –Pat Nakajima
Still don't know what I was waiting for
and my time was running wild.
A million dead-end streets and
every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet.
So I turned myself to face me
but I've never caught a glimpse
of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test. –David Bowie (Changes)
Without forgiveness there will be no future. –Nelson Mandella
Winning is everything as long as you win fairly. –Sumner Redstone
How can man achieve peace? Only through Love! Shaanthi (peace) is the fruit of the tree of life; without it, the tree is a barren stump. It has no value or validity. The fruit is encased in a bitter skin, you must have noticed, so that the sweet juice may be preserved and guarded against marauders; you have to remove the skin, before tasting the sweetness within, and strengthening yourself. The thick rind is symbolic of the six evil passions that encase the loving heart of man: lust, anger, greed, attachment, pride and hate. Those who can remove the rind and contact the sweetness within, through hard consistent discipline attain the peace we all desire; that peace is everlasting, unchanging, overwhelming. –Sai Baba- Divine Discourse, 1st Jan 1971.
On My Tombsone I would rather have it said that I was usefull instead of rich. –Benjamin Franklin
How can we disagree without being disagreeable. –Borak Obama
The market is the most effeicient mechanism we have devised to effeciently allocate resources to promote growth. The market is not particularly good when it comes to distribusional issues. –Warren Buffet
Proper preperation prevents poor perfromance. –Nancy Pelosi
I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me. –Beatles
People protect what they love. –Jean Michel Cousteau
To know and not do, is really not to know. To Learn and not to do is not to learn. –Stephen Covey
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. –Abraham Lincoln
All Children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniused by grownoups. –Buckminister Fuller
Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift. –Stephen Covey
The history of free man is never written by chance but by choice–their choice. –Dwight D. Eisenhower
Humans act. Animals and human "robots" react. –Stephen Covey
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness. –Stephen Covey
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And becasue we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. –Stephen Covey
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream, which fulfulled can be translated into befefir for everyone. –John F. Kennedy
Follow you bliss and the universe willopen doors for you where there wer only walls. –Joseph Cambpell
You create your own universe as you go along. –Winston Churchill
Imagination is everything. It is a preview of lifes coming attractions. –Albert Einstein
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.
Lord, we don't need another mountain,
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross,
Enough to last till the end of time.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone.
Lord, we don't need another meadow
There are cornfields and wheat fields enough to grow
There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine
Oh listen, lord, if you want to know.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone.
No, not just for some, oh, but just for everyone.
–Burt Bacharach
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I know you, I trust you, I'll buy from you. -Franz Huber
Tomorrow is no place to place your better days. –Dave Matthews
What I want is what I've not got and what I need is all around me. –Dave Matthews
Be a nice person…It’s so simple that it’s almost too obvious to notice. Look around at the people you like. Isn’t it a logical assumption that if you like traits in other people, then other people would like you if you developed those same traits?” –Warren Buffet
“You’re thinking that the investors, bankers, and regulators are the people you need to survive. Put them all aside, and give priority to talking to your people and your customers about what is wrong and what you have to do.” –Warren Buffet
“Our favorite holding period is forever.” –Warren Buffet
“Berkshire is my painting so it should look the way I want it to when it’s done.” –Warren Buffet
“You don’t need to play outside the lines. You can make a lot of money hitting the ball down the middle.”–Warren Buffet
This is you last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill–the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill–you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. –The Matrix
When investing in a business, I always look for companies with an Enduring competitive advantage–Warren Buffet
Do something great!!! –Bill Beloli [Jake's Favorite: My aunt Dora Jane was pals with Bill and I grew up with his children in San Franciso. When I was 17 years old my Aunt took me to a night club in San Francisco that Bill was managing. When we left the club that night, Bill shook my hand goodbye and said: "Jake, do something great." I will never forget those words of encouragement and enthusiams Bill Spoke.
Animals love each other too. –Mitch Fine (tell vegitarian story)
Perception is usually more persuasive than reality.
You never have time to do the project. But you always have time to redoo after you screw up. –Bill Spaulding
Generosity should begin lightly and deepen later, for when it is first rich and then lessens people forget the kindness. Authority should begin strictly and loosen up later, for if it is loose first and then strict, people will resent the severity. –Toa Te Ching
Nearly two decades of being a Mac fan has taught me one simple, incontrovertible truth about Apple hardware, which is: never buy the first generation. Ever. –Gavin Shear
Most software companies don't know when to stop on the new stuff and focus on the existing stuff. –Jason Fried
The best products in the world are rarely new products with more features–they are existing products that have been refined over and over and over again. –Jason Fried
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There’s a big difference between trying something and using something.
Trying something is more common than using something. That’s why most products are optimized for trying.
Trying something is looking at some screenshots, signing up, playing with it for a couple of minutes, forming an opinion, and then moving on. Trying is mainly about first impressions and surface appeal.
Most product reviews are based on trying something, not using something. That’s why many reviews are pretty thin or don’t get to the core essence of the product. The real deep knowledge of a product can only come from using it. Using it is what reveals greatness or failure on an intimate level.
You don’t notice the quirks and shortcuts when you try something. Those revelations only come from real use. Eye candy shines during trial, but fades fast during use. Cool wears off quick, usefulness never does.
Think of the difference between something painted gold and something made of gold. They’re both gold now, but once the paint wears off the first one you’re looking at something different. On the other hand the solid gold one continues to be gold no matter how much you use it.
In some ways it’s the difference between meeting someone and knowing someone. You don’t know someone until you’ve really spent some time with them. How do they react in certain situations? Are they kind or only friendly on the surface? Are they smart or can they just recite a few facts? The same goes for a product. How does the product react? Is the product just clever enough or is it too clever? How does the product make you feel when you use it?
–Jason Fried
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The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted. –Michael Beckwith.
Soul is when you have the ability to make other people feel better about being alive regardless of their condition. -Winton Marsalis
The quality of our life is based upon the quality of questions we ask. –John D. Martitni
