Hangout Quotes

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist.

Investing is not a game where

the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Christmas is not a time Happy Christmas Day

nor a season, but

a state of mind. To

cherish peace and goodwill,

to be plenteous in mercy,

is to have the real

spirit of Christmas.

Let a hundred flowers bloom;

let a hundred schools of thought contend.

The alternate domination of one faction over another,

sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension,

which in different ages and countries has perpetrated

the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Life is about capturing fleeting moments

and turning them into meaning.

You can’t always get what you want,

but if you try sometimes,

you might find you get what you need.

Management is doing things right;

leadership is doing the right things.

Unless India stands up to the world,

no one will respect us.

In this world,

fear has no place.

Only strength respects strength.

Be like water making its way through cracks.

Do not be assertive,

but adjust to the object,

and you shall find a way around or through it.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.

There is no cure for curiosity.

Ideas are more powerful than guns.

Don’t wait for the stars to align,

reach up and rearrange them the way you want.

Create your own constellation.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself.

Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice

A man in debt is so far a slave.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage,

than the promotion of science and literature.

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Reading, after a certain age,

diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.

Any man who reads too much

and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The way I decided to leave Wall Street

was a regret minimization framework.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,

that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower

where I thought a flower would grow.