is this happiness?

To live wisely, agreeably, and well.

[apgregory]

A man entered a local paper's pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, hoping at least one would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

Anonymous 

[apgregory]

You're only as good as the information you have.

A. P. Gregory

[warrenbuffettquotes]

It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to lose it. If you think about that, you will do things differently.

Warren E. Buffett, Famous American Businessman, on the importance of self-control and good judgment, quoted in The Tao of Warren Buffett (Buffett & Clark, 2006)

[apgregory]

BEWARE THE BARRENNESS OF A BUSY LIFE.

Socrates, Famous Ancient Greek philosopher

[apgregory]

[oupacademic]

How American tipping grew out of racism

The classist roots of an entrenched tradition.

That 10-25% you leave? It’s because they didn’t want to pay newly freed slaves.

[polilovi]

[apgregory]

The world is not the way they tell you it is.

‘Adam Smith’, opening line to The Money Game

[apgregory]

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, I fear the man who practiced 1 kick 10,000 times.

Bruce Lee, Famous martial artist

[apgregory]

The fact of the matter is that simple rules are extraordinary tools.

Mister Market, Financial trader

[apgregory]

My sole advantage in life is that I know some of my weaknesses, mostly that I am incapable of taming my emotions facing news and incapable of seeing a performance with a clear head.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in Fooled By Randomness (2001)

[apgregory]

When I see an investor monitoring his portfolio with live prices on his cellular telephone or his PalmPilot, I smile and smile.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in Fooled By Randomness (2001)

[apgregory]

I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in Fooled By Randomness (2001)

[apgregory]

Over a short time increment, one observes the variability of the portfolio, not the returns. In other words, one sees the variance, little else.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in Fooled By Randomness (2001)

[apgregory]

My problem is that I am not rational and I am extremely prone to drown in randomness and to incur emotional torture.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in Fooled By Randomness (2001)

[apgregory]

When uncertainty exists, appearance is easier to manage than reality.

Mister Market, Financial trader, on the power of theatre

[warrenbuffettquotes]

Predicting rain doesn’t count, building arks does.

Warren E. Buffett, Famous American Businessman, in Berkshire Hathaway’s 1981 Annual Shareholder Letter on the Noah Principle and the importance of performing over preaching (via warrenbuffettquotes)