Tim's Library

"You can only make money by being right about something that most people think is wrong.

You can't make money by being wrong.

And you can't make money by being right about something everyone else knows.

So you have to be right about something that most people think is wrong."

     ~ Bill Gurly ~

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world”. 

John LeCarre

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

Sun Tzu

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."

Charles Lubbock

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone made a courageous decision." Peter Drucker

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Helen Keller

"What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated." John E. Jones

“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” 

Steve Jobs

“Do not depend on the hope of results. When you do the sort of work you have taken on, you must face the fact that your work may apparently be worthless. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate on the value, the rightness and the truth of the work itself.”

Thomas Merton