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Profiles, playbooks, and lessons from leaders, investors, and founders.
LeadershipShowing 24 of 71
> "Trying to find internal validation through external achievement is like drinking salt water to quench your thirst. It seems like it's going to work, but it just makes you thirstier." - **Graham Weaver** [[00:07:20](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQZO-MPpbJg&t=0h7m20s)] > "Life is an internal game that's played in an external arena." - **Graham Weaver**…
> "There's always so many nerves right at a Grand Slam and you never you can be as confident as you want and you can be the number one player in the world but they still put the nets up and you still have to play." - **Maria Sharapova** [[00:01:09](https://youtu.be/s0E1L-kMkwM?t=69s)] > "I recognized from an early age that as a woman my career would end much sooner than in other professions and so I was like I got…
"Trying to find internal validation through external achievement is like drinking salt water to quench your thirst. It seems like it's going to work, but it just makes you thirstier." - Graham Weaver [00:07:20]
"Life is an internal game that's played in an external arena." - Graham Weaver…
"There's always so many nerves right at a Grand Slam and you never you can be as confident as you want and you can be the number one player in the world but they still put the nets up and you still have to play." - Maria Sharapova [00:01:09]
"I recognized from an early age that as a woman my career would end much sooner than in other professions and so I was like I got…
"I've had the privilege of wearing different uniforms in my 42 years from war torn battlefields to emergency departments to cockpits and spacecrafts through it all i've made many mistakes and learned many lessons" - Jonny Kim [00:00:40]
"Orbiting our planet at 17,000 miles per hour i witnessed our planet's raw majesty... yet through it all i…
"I don't really like telling people what to do. I like telling people where to look." - Rory Sutherland [00:00:04]
"Everybody's trying to be like Newton, and you need to try to be like Darwin. Everybody's trying to find a theory of everything... The only correct response to a complex world is observation." - Rory Sutherland…
"Having the courage to start over you have to — when you're faced with a difficulty you have to have that courage to start over." - Marcia [00:01:15]
"By keeping a positive attitude you're my — I hire great people and and I let them do it and I become a cheerleader." - Gary…
"The more you chase a positive experience that chasing in and of itself is a negative experience and the more you accept a negative experience the more that acceptance itself is a positive experience." - Mark Manson [00:02:06]
"Happiness is not something that you pursue and achieve in and of itself it's the natural side effect of finding something…
"Whenever I've had a dream or a goal... it was words, pictures, emotions. So like I would maybe write a goal down but it would be a moment that i could picture and i could feel and i could describe and that would be my goal it wouldn't be the trophy at the end of it." - Tommy Fleetwood [00:06:53]
"In order to succeed you have to fail over and…
"I think happiness is greatly overrated in today's age I think people focus on it way too much... the more you chase a positive experience that chasing in and of itself is a negative experience." - Mark Manson [00:00:45]
"Happiness is not something that you pursue and achieve in and of itself it's the natural side effect of finding something…
"Cognitive dissonance is something that you should all familiarize yourself with, and it is basically the human brain's ability to reject information which is at odds with its predisposition." - Howard Marks [00:07:25]
"In real life things fluctuate between pretty good and not so hot but in the minds of investors they go from flawless to hopeless." -…
"making things simple is so much harder than making things complex for those of us that were fortunate enough to work with him he was the the teacher of a lifetime" - Tim Cook [00:00:09]
"everyone saw College in those days and hopefully today as opening many doors and being able to stand on the shoulders of your parents" - Tim Cook…
Finding the Right Altitude | Alfred Lin
"A heat seeking missile for pain cuts through all of this bullshit with nearly unmatched vigor."
"Over the last ~8 years of running Athelas, and now Commure, there’s a specific type of person I’ve found who rapidly rises within the ranks of a business. These are folks who have gone from ICs -> C-suite level in a matter of 2-3 years, or folks who have risen to VPs / SVP tier right out of school." "The term…
"He's 10,000 times more effective than other people Not because he's 10,000 times smarter but because each of those improvements don't just add they multiply" - Eric Jorgenson [00:01:09]
"Failure is essentially irrelevant unless it's catastrophic" - Eric Jorgenson (paraphrasing Elon Musk)…
"People naturally become a little bit reluctant if not totally defensive to things that come at them from power." - Randall Stutman [00:00:37]
"The really special people are able to get those results and then create followership where people would do anything for them." - Randall Stutman…
"I think this market has become much more of a gambling institution and... going against consensus has become much more I think profitable." - Rick Rieder [00:00:00]
"We're not in the business of being right, we're in the business of generating return for clients... the market perception can stay wrong longer." - Rick Rieder…
"It's not about how many gray hairs you have. It's not about who you know. It's been about what you bring." - Kunal Shah [00:01:48]
"I kind of had this itch to actually join the business and not just be in this risk-taking market focused group that sat on the corner..." - Kunal Shah…
"The brain hates changing its mind... because our past beliefs have always served us." - Nir Eyal [00:14:46]
"A limiting belief is defined as a belief that decreases your motivation and increases your suffering. A liberating belief supplies motivation and decreases your suffering." - Nir Eyal…
