We are He, since we are His body and since He was made man in order to be our Head.

A mindset that can be paranoid and optimistic at the same time is hard to maintain, because seeing things as black or white takes less effort than accepting nuance. But you need short-term paranoia to keep you alive long enough to exploit long-term optimism.

Winning is the usual prime directive in professional football, but for me the fundamental goal was the full and total implementation of the actions and attitudes of the Standard of Performance.

In ratio to the duration and increasing strength of authority its advantages for its subjects disappear and its disadvantages increase.

A rational investor should pay a higher price for a share, other things equal, the lower the interest rates

If people don’t weigh in, they can’t buy in.

If we don’t live up to any of these promises... we’ll credit back double the billable amount.

A false path in life is generally something we are attracted to for the wrong reasons—money, fame, attention, and so on.

I’ve always had great faith in my ability to figure things out, and over time my need to figure things out made me better at doing so.

Among all those chiefdoms, the ubiquitous problem of devising centralized power structures was solved most successfully by a chief called Dingiswayo, who gained ascendancy of the Mtetwa chiefdom by killing a rival around 1807.