Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

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Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Debtors, like gamblers, live in an uneasy state of hope and despair but try to dwell on hope." - Robert Morgan

"A debt free company can't go bankrupt." - Peter Lynch 

"If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"There seems to be more and more group-think in the media, toeing the line, so if you weren't in step, you're just going to be ostracized or your voice will be shut off," - Elon Musk

Life Lessons from Daniel Boone

Some nuggets of wisdom from Robert Morgan's book Boone: A Biography:

"Boone knew that the secret of hunting, as in many other pursuits, was not just in marksmanship, but in attention, preparation, watching and listening, before one made a move."

Luck favors the prepared mind. Couldn't help but think this is excellent advice for poker players.

"In his midthirties a man either reaches out toward risk and glory or stays within the routines of the expected and ordinary. It is an age when men leave safe homes and jobs and go on voyages, odysseys, perform transforming sacrifices. It is an age when Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass and Columbus started to plan his voyage to the Indies. It is the age which visionaries become prophets or explorers or inventors, or make fools of themselves trying."

Very true but people find their ways at all ages - as long as they decide to reach out towards the risk and not try to remain in safe harbor.

"Two years may be the time to takes to leave behind one's old self and see the the world in a larger, clearer way. It would be the time Thoreau spent in his cabin at Walden, the definitive period of his life. It was the time Goethe spent in Italy in 1786-88, in a visit that transformed his vision of himself and his future."

Two-years was the time Daniel Boone spent in Kentucky by himself and that time in the wilderness helped make him a legend.