When children are oppositional, defensive, numbed out, or enraged, it’s also important to recognize that such “bad behavior” may repeat action patterns that were established to survive serious threats.

Who you know determines who you are—how you feel, how you act, and what you achieve.

Your big ONE Thing is your purpose and your small ONE Thing is the priority you take action on to achieve it. The most productive people… allow purpose to be the guiding force in determining the priority that drives their actions. This is the straightest path to extraordinary results.

As a leader, you get what you tolerate.

The corruption of Christianity and its acceptance in its corrupt form by the majority of men was as necessary as it is that the seed should remain hidden for a certain time in the earth in order to germinate.

Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

Look for growth situations with low price-earnings multiples. Beware of very high multiple stocks in which future growth is already discounted. If growth doesn’t materialize, losses are doubly heavy—both the earnings and the multiples drop.

Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

If Christianity only means one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance. There has been no lack of good advice for the last four thousand years. A bit more makes no difference.

The reverse phenomenon, of European deaths due to diseases encountered overseas, is discussed by Philip Curtin, Death by Migration: Europe’s Encounter with the Tropical World in the 19th Century.