ContrariLand

Views on markets, real estate and life. Honestly I'm mostly doing it so I won't have so many notebooks


Quotes

“The secret is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable ones, and then starting that one.” Mark Twain

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed”.  Charles Darwin

“It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.” Millard Fuller

“When you surround an enemy, leave an outlet free.” Sun Tzu

“Surround yourself only with people who will lift you higher.” Oprah

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Da Vinci

“Action is the fundamental key to all success.” Picasso

“Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm.” Emerson

“The further you see back, the further you see forward”. Churchill

“Speed is irrelevant if you’re going in the wrong direction” -Gandhi

“If you have a garden and a library you have all you need” – Cicero

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” – da Vinci

“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” -Lin Yutang

“If you want to persuade, appeal to interest not reason.” -Ben Franklin

“He who joyfully marches in the rank and file has already earned my contempt” – Einstein