January 17, 2024

““Unlike other ambitious people, he never talked about making money,” she says. “He assumed that he would be either wealthy or broke, but nothing in between. What interested him were the problems he wanted to solve.””

1:25 PM

“He’s not a man who takes no for an answer,”

1:25 PM

““Even when it seemed like crazy talk, you would believe him because he believed it.””

1:28 PM

““The strong will and emotional distance that makes him difficult as a husband,” Justine concedes, “may be reasons for his success in running a business.””

1:40 PM

“First, be unreliable. Do not faithfully do what you have engaged to do.”

4:10 AM

“My second prescription for misery is to learn everything you possibly can from your own experience, minimizing what you learn vicariously from the good and bad experiences of others, living and dead”

4:14 AM

“Here lie the remains of all that was mortal in Sir Isaac Newton”

4:19 AM

“My third prescription to you for misery is to go down and stay down when you get your first, second, or third severe reverse in the battle of life.”

4:21 AM

“What Carson did was to approach the study of how to create X by turning the question backward—that is, by studying how to create non-X.”

4:29 AM

“It is in the nature of things, as Jacobi knew, that many hard problems are best solved only when they are addressed backward”

4:29 AM

“the first rule is that you’ve got to have multiple models—because if you have just one or two that you’re using, the nature of human psychology is such that you’ll torture reality so that it fits your models, or at least you’ll think it does”

4:44 AM

“To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”

4:45 AM

“And the models have to come from multiple disciplines—because all the wisdom of the world is not to be found in one little academic department.”

4:45 AM

“First, there’s mathematics.”

4:46 AM

“Obviously, you have to know accounting. It’s the language of practical business life”

4:47 AM

“His rule for all the Braun Company’s communications was called the five Ws: You had to tell *who* was going to do *what*, *where*, *when*, and *why*.”

4:48 AM

“if you always tell people why, they’ll understand it better, they’ll consider it more important, and they’ll be more likely to comply.”

4:49 AM

“And, of course, the engineering idea of a backup system is a very powerful idea. The engineering idea of breakpoints, that’s a very powerful model too”

4:51 AM

“critical mass”

4:52 AM

“I suppose the next most reliable models are from biology and physiology”

4:58 AM

“to show up reliably for responsible work”

12:30 PM

“良尝闲从容步游下邳圯上。有一老父，衣褐，至良所，直堕其履圯上，顾谓良曰："孺子，下取履！" 良鄂然，欲殴之，为其老，强忍，下取履。父曰："履我！" 良业为取履，因长跪履之。父以足受，笑而去。良殊大惊，随目之。父去里所，复还，曰："孺子可教矣。后五日平明，与我会此。" 良因怪之，跪曰："诺。" 五日，平明，良往。父已**先**在，怒曰："与老人期，**后**，何也？"去，曰："后五日早会。" 五日，鸡鸣，良往。父又**先**在，复怒曰："**后**，何也？" 去，曰："后五日复早来。" 五日，良夜未半往。有顷，父亦来，喜曰："当如是。"出一编书，曰："读此则为王者师矣。后十年兴。十三年孺子见我济北，谷城山下黄石即我矣。" 遂去，无他言，不复见。 旦日视其书，乃《太公兵法》也。良因异之，常习诵读之。”

5:12 AM

““古之所谓豪杰之士者，必有过人之节。人情有所不能忍者，匹夫见辱，拔剑而起，挺身而斗，此不足为勇也。天下有大勇者，卒然临之而不惊，无故加之而不怒。此其所挟持者甚大，而其志甚远也。””

5:14 AM

“先处战地而待敌者佚，后处战地而趋战者劳。故善战者，致人而不致于人。”

5:16 AM

“故兵贵先，胜于此，则胜彼矣。”

5:16 AM

“只有做到“绝对的先”才能占据主动”

5:17 AM

“所以什么才是“绝对的先”？出乎对方意料才是“绝对的先”。”

11:54 AM