If you lose 50% how much do you need to make to get back to where you were? Not 50%
You have to make 100% to get back to even.
It’s much harder to come back than it is to maintain.
As a wise mentor of mine, Keith Cunningham told me, the great sports teams, and great business people, don’t just focus on their offence, they know that to win they also need a great defence.
As Warren Buffet said, rule number one is don’t lose money. Rule number two is see rule number one.
In arguments, we often want to be right. But being right is not the same as being wise.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.