My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Was I a little full of myself at nineteen? Sure, I was. I think you have to be to do anything important. 2. Explosive growth is never about stability. 3. Many people don't reach their greatest potential because they fear failure. In avoiding failure, they deprive themselves of a great teacher. 4. ...

My top 10 highlights from this talk: 1. If we're all going to eat, someone's got to sell. 2. You're always selling. And if you don't like to sell, here's my advice: Get over it. 3. Don't play to win —play to win by a landslide. 4. If every time you lost money you just got depressed and angry and you couldn't deal with it, you'd have a ...

My top 10 highlights from the episode: 1. I've always believed in doing one thing and doing it better than anybody else. 2. If you try to be all things to all people you’re not anything to anybody. 3. We have a lack of founders in big businesses, especially in the restaurant business. When I was a kid it was run by founders. Founders c...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. He stopped because it was hard. It required discipline, dedication, and hours and hours of time. Everyone stopped. I didn't stop. 2. Nothing in Hollywood is anything until it's something, and the only way to make it something is with a profound display of belief. If you keep insisting that a shift...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Picking some extreme example and asking my favorite question —What in hell is going on here? —is the way to wisdom in this world. (Munger) 2. The whole secret of investment is to find places where it's safe and wise to not diversify. (Munger) 3. If you enjoy what you're doing you are likely to get...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. “When you get the enemy on the run, keep him there." — General George S. Patton. 2. The oil business is not all beer and skittles. 3. Leon would later tell a story about negotiating with a representative of Qaddafi who put a gun on the table between them. 4. Bill Parcells tells a story of calling ...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Strategy is not words. Strategy is action. 2. Innovation is a necessity, not an option. 3. Jensen has a habit of self-criticism: I look in the mirror every morning and say: You suck. 4. I don't like giving up on people. I'd rather torture them into greatness. 5. Colleagues call him "Professor Jens...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Where other investors sought the safety of numbers, the soothing ring of consensus, Hetty felt most comfortable on her own, trusting her own judgment and instincts. 2. When Ned was asked the most important lesson he had learned from his mother, he replied, without hesitation, "Self-reliance." 3. T...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. I still vividly remember that my parents’ arguments were always about food. 2. There have been times of frustration, and harder times of humiliation and defeat when all I could do was clench my teeth and bear it. 3. Half measures, compromises, cutting corners, or “being realistic” do not exist in ...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Narrow your focus to your most important dreams and tune out everything else. 2. The most important thing a CEO does is recruit superlative people. 3. An empty seat is less damaging than a poor fit. 4. Resist the urge to flood communications with nonessential information. 5. If you want to make mo...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Ortega has created a business model that is studied in universities he could not access. 2. “One afternoon, after school, I went with my mother to a store to buy food. The store we walked into was one of those old-time grocery stores, with a counter so high that I couldn't see who my mother was ta...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. It pays to be where the money is being spent. 2. Hill on how to build a railroad: Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work. 3. A rich imagination and a driving ambition were fundamental parts of his nature. 4. He came to believe in the strength of will, the power of one dynamic indivi...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. A demon in me says I have so much to do. I am never satisfied. Something tells me what I’m doing at the moment has to be done better tomorrow. 2. The day he is free of IKEA, life for him will no longer be worth living. He loves it, always wants to lie as close to it as possible, and never tires of...

My top 10 highlights from The Testament of a Furniture Dealer: 1. Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. 2. The fear of making mistakes is the root of bureaucracy and the enemy of development. 3. If you are not enthusiastic about your job a third of your life goes to waste. 4. Wastin...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. He personally met with every single person the company hired through the first three thousand employees. 2. I’ve never met a man so laser focused on his vision for what he wanted. He’s very intense, and he’s intimidating as hell. 3. He didn’t want to fail, but he wasn’t afraid of it. 4. No committ...

My top 10 highlights from the letters: 1. If you know you are right, why would you not bet a high proportion of the portfolio in that idea? 2. We ask companies with poor economics why they want to grow. And senior management look back at us incredulous at our line of questioning. 3. Henry Royce (founder of Rolls-Royce) made the enginee...

My top 10 highlights from the chapter Nick & Zak's Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep and Qais Zakaria Built Their Investment Partnership— from this book: 1. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. 2. They practiced intentional disconnection. They wanted to think in peace, undisturbed by the popular obsession. It...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. The fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. 2. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. 3. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself. 4. What’s crucial is whether you attain the standards you’ve set for yo...

My top 10 highlights from The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce: How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley by Tom Wolfe. 1. The revolution didn't just happen; it was engineered by a small number of people. Collectively they engineered tomorrow. Foremost among them is Robert Noyce. 2. Noyce had a passion for the scientific grind. 3. He had a profound...

My top 10 highlights from The House of Arnault: 1. He made a bunch of comments that were very, very detail-oriented. Things that you wouldn’t typically notice, but once you’ve seen tens of thousands of stores over the years, it’s what comes to your mind immediately. 2. Arnault spots any incongruities that might disrupt the aura of opul...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. His tactics prompted them to describe Sam as a modern-day combination of Vince Lombardi (insisting on solid execution of the basics) and General George S. Patton. (A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.) 2. Nothing in the world is cheaper than a good idea wit...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. The line that divides majority opinion from mass hysteria is often so fine as to be virtually invisible. 2. I studied the lives of great men and women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy, and enthusi...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature and one of the more pronounced motivating forces in my life. 2. Once I have committed myself to any undertaking a powerful inner drive cuts in and I become intent on seeing it through to a satisfactory conclusion. 3. My own nature is such that ...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Words are powerful, but more words are not more powerful—they’re often just confusing. 2. The further you get away from one, the more complicated things get. 3. Rather than seeing less choice, customers see less confusion. 4. Clarity propels an organization. Not occasional clarity but pervasive, t...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Walt Disney seldom dabbled. Everyone who knew him remarked on his intensity; when something intrigued him, he focused himself entirely as if it were the only thing that mattered. 2. He had the drive and ambition of ten million men. 3. Part of Walt’s secret was that in insisting on quality from ind...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. George Lucas unapologetically invested in what he believed in the most: himself. 2. As soon as I made my first film I thought, Hey, I’m good at this. I know how to do this. From then on I’ve never questioned it. 3. When I discovered film I fell madly in love with it. I ate it. I slept it. 24 hours...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. 2. On the ride home, even if I didn't have questions, my parents would talk about the movie we had just seen. These are some of my fondest memories. 3. I was watching the most challenging movies of the greatest movie-making era ...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Those who live by their wits go to work on roller coasters. The ride is exhilarating, but one has to have a stomach of titanium. 2. Bureaucracy has no place in an ideas company. 3. Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. 4. Rule #1: There are no ru...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. In the end superior ability has its way. 2. History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all. 3. Every advance in the complexity of the economy puts an added premium upon superior ability. 4. All technological ad...

My top 10 highlights from the book: 1. Everyone wanted to be like Mike. Mike did not want to be like anyone else. 2. Stop adding. Start deleting. Winning demands total focus. 3. Their minds were stronger than their feelings. 4. You can't buy a map to the top. 5. Motivation is entry level. 6. Every great creation and invention started w...