10 Timeless Authors

Happy Tuesday!

Today, I've curated 11 exceptional quotes from renowned authors, each offering insights into entrepreneurship, money, and vision.

Dive in and be inspired!

1/ Robert Greene: The 48 laws of power.

“If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.”

2/ Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Money’s greatest intrinsic value—and this can’t be overstated—is its ability to give you control over your time.”

3/ Seneca - Letters from a stoic.

“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”

4/. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”

5/ Seth Godin- The dip.

At the beginning of any new project, it is fun and very engaging. You will have some early wins – you'll see rapid improvement, people will give you a pat on the back, you might make your first sale. But whenever you work on something worthwhile, you will hit The Dip.

The Dip is the long, hard slog between beginning and mastery, the point where extra effort doesn't lead to an instant tangible improvement in results. The Dip is where most people quit. Because it's hard and because most people quit, it becomes scarce. The dip creates scarcity, and scarcity creates value.

You have to recognize the dip, know that it's coming ,and then decide BEFORE you start: are you committed to pushing through the dip all the way to the end? If not, it's better to quit before you start.

6/ Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies.”

7/ Garry Kasparov, How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“Overthinking numbs our instincts and turns what should be a quick decision into a mental committee meeting.”

8/ Garry Kasparov, Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

“To become good at anything you have to know how to apply basic principles. To become great at it, you have to know when to violate those principles.”

“The machines have finally come for the white collared, the college graduates, the decision makers. And it’s about time.”

9/ Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”

10/ Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”

11/ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to yearn for the endless immensity of the sea. ”

Here's to a week of impact, inspiration and success!

Till next week,

Noemi

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