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sharp insights from minds that shaped the world — and a few that history forgot to hype

23 December

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities.

Michael Dell

22 December

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

Abraham Lincoln

21 December

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

20 December

It’s better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Warren Buffet

19 December

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

18 December

There is a time for many words and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer

17 December

It’s better to hang out with people better than you.

Warren Buffett

16 December

Everyone who has taken a shower has had an idea. But it’s the people who get out of the shower, towel off, and do something about it that makes the difference.

Nolan Bunshell

15 December

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

14 December

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.

Sheryl Sandberg

13 December

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr

12 December

Know yourself and know your enemy and you will never be defeated.

Sun Tzu

11 December

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

10 December

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

9 December

Starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling a plane on the way down.

Reid Hoffman

8 December

It was the best of times it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens

7 December

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

Hafez

6 December

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

5 December

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

4 December

We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey