IJIN Lab - World's Greatest Minds

「The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.」

Marcus Aurelius『Meditations, Book 5, Chapter 20』

「Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.」

Zeno of Citium

「Endure and renounce.」

Epictetus『Recorded by Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, Book 17, Ch. 19』

「Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.」

Seneca the Younger『De Providentia (On Providence)』

「We survive through adversity and perish through comfort.」

Mencius『Mencius, Gaozi II, Chapter 15』

「A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.」

Laozi『Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64』

「What does not kill me makes me stronger.」

Friedrich Nietzsche『Twilight of the Idols (Gotzen-Dammerung), Maxims and Arrows 8』

「He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.」

Friedrich Nietzsche『Twilight of the Idols (Gotzen-Dammerung), Maxims and Arrows 12』

「I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.」

Thomas Edison

「Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.」

Thomas Edison

「Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.」

Henry Ford

「Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.」

Jack Ma

「If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.」

Jack Ma

「A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.」

Jack Ma

「I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from unsuccessful ones is pure perseverance.」

Steve Jobs『Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories, April 20, 1995』

「Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.」

Bill Gates『The Road Ahead (1995)』

「It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.」

Bill Gates

「Never think you have exhausted every option. Stand at the cliff's edge, and a fresh wind will surely blow.」

Kōnosuke Matsushita『Widely attributed; PHP Institute publications』

「It only becomes failure when you stop. Keep going until you succeed, and it becomes success.」

Kōnosuke Matsushita『The Path (PHP Institute, 1968)』

「Only about one percent of my work truly succeeded. Ninety-nine percent was failure. That one percent made me who I am.」

Soichiro Honda『Honda Soichiro: Yume wo Chikara ni - Watashi no Rirekisho (Nikkei Business Bunko)』

「Fear inaction more than you fear failure from taking on a challenge.」

Soichiro Honda

「Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.」

Howard Marks

「Our favorite holding period is forever.」

Warren Buffett『Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter 1988』

「Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.」

Warren Buffett

「The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.」

Charlie Munger『Poor Charlie's Almanack』

「Pain plus reflection equals progress.」

Ray Dalio『Principles: Life and Work (2017)』

「If you're not failing, you're not pushing your limits, and if you're not pushing your limits, you're not maximizing your potential.」

Ray Dalio『Principles: Life and Work (2017)』

「The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「Buy stocks, take sleeping pills, and stop looking at the papers. After many years you will see: you are rich.」

André Kostolany『Die Kunst, uber Geld nachzudenken』

「Stock market profits are pain money. First comes the pain, then the money.」

André Kostolany

「I cannot tell you how to get rich quickly, but I can tell you how to get poor quickly: by trying to get rich quickly.」

André Kostolany

「It was never my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.」

Jesse Livermore『Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre, 1923)』

「The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.」

Jesse Livermore『Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre, 1923)』

「Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.」

John C. Bogle『The Little Book of Common Sense Investing』

「The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest.」

John D. Rockefeller

「Competition is a sin.」

John D. Rockefeller

「The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.」

Andrew Carnegie『Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (1920)』

「Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.」

Thomas Edison『Harper's Monthly, September 1932 (originally spoken c. 1903)』

「I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.」

Thomas Edison

「If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.」

Henry Ford

「Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.」

Steve Jobs

「Ask why five times.」

Sakichi Toyoda

「Invention lies not in knowledge itself but in the ingenuity to apply it.」

Sakichi Toyoda

「Demand does not simply exist out there. We create it.」

Soichiro Honda

「We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.」

Walt Disney『Walt Disney's speech, quoted in Meet the Robinsons (2007 film)』

「No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.」

J. P. Morgan

「I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.」

J. P. Morgan

「Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.」

Marcus Aurelius『Meditations, Book 10, Chapter 16』

「The beginning is half of the whole.」

Aristotle『Politics, Book V, Ch.4, 1303b29』

「A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.」

Laozi『Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64』

「The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

「It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

「If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.」

Jack Ma

「Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.」

Steve Jobs『Stanford University Commencement Address, June 12, 2005』

「Open the shoji screen and look outside; the world is vast.」

Sakichi Toyoda『Biography of Sakichi Toyoda (compiled by Toyota Group)』

「Never think you have exhausted every option. Stand at the cliff's edge, and a fresh wind will surely blow.」

Kōnosuke Matsushita『Widely attributed; PHP Institute publications』

「Only about one percent of my work truly succeeded. Ninety-nine percent was failure. That one percent made me who I am.」

Soichiro Honda『Honda Soichiro: Yume wo Chikara ni - Watashi no Rirekisho (Nikkei Business Bunko)』

「Fear inaction more than you fear failure from taking on a challenge.」

Soichiro Honda

「All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.」

Walt Disney

「The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.」

Walt Disney

「Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it — even though others may hesitate or differ.」

Benjamin Graham『The Intelligent Investor, 1949』

「If you're not failing, you're not pushing your limits, and if you're not pushing your limits, you're not maximizing your potential.」

Ray Dalio『Principles: Life and Work (2017)』

「The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.」

J. P. Morgan

「Favorable timing is less important than geographical advantage, and that is less important than unity among people.」

Mencius『Mencius, Gongsun Chou II, Chapter 1』

「The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest.」

John D. Rockefeller

「Competition is a sin.」

John D. Rockefeller

「No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.」

Andrew Carnegie

「What is the root of wealth? Benevolence and moral principle. Unless grounded in right reason, wealth cannot endure.」

Shibusawa Eiichi『Rongo to Soroban (The Analects and the Abacus)』

「Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.」

Henry Ford

「Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.」

Henry Ford

「A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.」

Henry Ford

「Customers first, employees second, shareholders third.」

Jack Ma『Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built』

「A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.」

Jack Ma

「Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.」

Steve Jobs

「Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.」

Bill Gates『Business @ the Speed of Thought (1999)』

「The manufacturer's mission is to overcome poverty by producing goods in such abundance that they become as plentiful and cheap as tap water.」

Kōnosuke Matsushita『First Founding Anniversary Address, May 5, 1932』

「Matsushita Electric is in the business of developing people. We also happen to make electrical products.」

Kōnosuke Matsushita『Internal address; PHP Institute archives』

「Commerce is the art of inspiring customers.」

Kōnosuke Matsushita『Similar phrasing in Wisdom on Commerce (PHP Institute)』

「Only about one percent of my work truly succeeded. Ninety-nine percent was failure. That one percent made me who I am.」

Soichiro Honda『Honda Soichiro: Yume wo Chikara ni - Watashi no Rirekisho (Nikkei Business Bunko)』

「Those who move others can feel what others feel. But empathizers struggle themselves. Those who never struggle will never move anyone.」

Soichiro Honda

「The result of life and work = Attitude x Effort x Ability.」

Kazuo Inamori『A Compass to Fulfillment (Ikikata)』

「Conceive optimistically, plan pessimistically, execute optimistically.」

Kazuo Inamori『Kyocera Philosophy』

「When you judge with an altruistic heart, everything works out.」

Kazuo Inamori『A Compass to Fulfillment (Ikikata)』

「The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.」

Walt Disney

「Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought.」

Li Ka-shing

「I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.」

J. P. Morgan

「The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.」

John C. Bogle『The Little Book of Common Sense Investing』

「Knowing it is less than loving it; loving it is less than delighting in it.」

Confucius『Analects, Yong Ye 20』

「Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.」

John D. Rockefeller

「Whether you think you can, or you think you can't -- you're right.」

Henry Ford

「If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.」

Henry Ford

「Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.」

Jack Ma

「Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.」

Steve Jobs『Stanford University Commencement Address, June 12, 2005』

「Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.」

Steve Jobs

「I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from unsuccessful ones is pure perseverance.」

Steve Jobs『Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories, April 20, 1995』

「Demand does not simply exist out there. We create it.」

Soichiro Honda

「All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.」

Walt Disney

「The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.」

Walt Disney

「We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.」

Walt Disney『Walt Disney's speech, quoted in Meet the Robinsons (2007 film)』

「It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.」

Seneca the Younger『De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life)』

「Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.」

Hypatia

「All human beings by nature desire to know.」

Aristotle『Metaphysics, Book I, 980a21』

「For whom emptiness works, everything works. For whom emptiness does not work, nothing works.」

Nagarjuna『Mulamadhyamakakarika, Chapter 24, Verse 14』

「I think, therefore I am.」

René Descartes『Principia Philosophiae, Part I, Article 7 (1644)』

「I think, therefore I am.」

René Descartes『Discourse on the Method, Part IV (1637)』

「One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Le Deuxieme Sexe』

「To will oneself free is already to have freed oneself.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

「The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

「Let nothing define us. Let nothing subjugate us. Let freedom be our very substance.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

「Existence precedes essence.」

Jean-Paul Sartre『Existentialism Is a Humanism (L'existentialisme est un humanisme)』

「The world is everything that is the case.」

Ludwig Wittgenstein『Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Proposition 1』

「The man who dies rich dies disgraced.」

Andrew Carnegie『The Gospel of Wealth (North American Review, 1889)』

「Each of us carries a heaven-sent mission; living joyfully in pursuit of that calling is the first requirement of a well-lived life.」

Shibusawa Eiichi『Rongo to Soroban (The Analects and the Abacus)』

「You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.」

Steve Jobs『Stanford University Commencement Address, June 12, 2005』

「A sunao (open) mind sees the truth of things without being trapped by preconceptions.」

Kōnosuke Matsushita『Developing a Sunao Mind (PHP Institute, 1976)』

「The result of life and work = Attitude x Effort x Ability.」

Kazuo Inamori『A Compass to Fulfillment (Ikikata)』

「The greatest happiness in life lies in turning your work into your passion.」

Seiroku Honda『My Confession of Wealth (Watashi no Zaisan Kokuhaku)』

「You cannot take your fortune into the coffin.」

Seiroku Honda

「Before you point your fingers, make sure your hands are clean.」

Li Ka-shing

「Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.」

George Soros『Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve』

「We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.」

Zeno of Citium『Lives of the Eminent Philosophers』

「The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.」

Chrysippus『Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta (SVF III, compiled by von Arnim)』

「Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few.」

Pythagoras『Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Book VIII』

「To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.」

Hypatia

「Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.」

Hypatia

「I know that I do not know.」

Plato『Apology 21d』

「Imagine prisoners chained underground since childhood, seeing only shadows on a wall and taking them for reality.」

Plato『Republic Book VII, 514a-515a』

「I know that I know nothing.」

Socrates『Plato, Apology 21d (paraphrase; exact phrasing does not appear verbatim)』

「Those who understand that things arise dependently know them to be empty.」

Nagarjuna『Vigrahavyavartani』

「The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.」

Laozi『Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1』

「Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world.」

René Descartes『Discourse on the Method, Part I, opening line (1637)』

「What is rational is real; and what is real is rational.」

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel『Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Preface』

「The true is the whole.」

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel『Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface』

「Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.」

Immanuel Kant『Critique of Practical Reason, Conclusion』

「Have the courage to use your own understanding!」

Immanuel Kant『An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784)』

「Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.」

Immanuel Kant『Critique of Pure Reason, B75』

「There are no facts, only interpretations.」

Friedrich Nietzsche『Nachgelassene Fragmente (Posthumous Fragments), 1886-1887, 7[60]』

「It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein『Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Proposition 5.6』

「Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.」

Marcus Aurelius『Meditations (Ta eis heauton)』

「Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.」

Hypatia

「To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.」

Hypatia

「Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.」

Hypatia

「Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.」

Confucius『Analects, Wei Zheng 15』

「Once in one's life, everything should be called into doubt.」

René Descartes『Principia Philosophiae, Part I, Article 1 (1644)』

「World history is progress in the consciousness of freedom.」

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel『Lectures on the Philosophy of History』

「Have the courage to use your own understanding!」

Immanuel Kant『An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784)』

「To will oneself free is already to have freed oneself.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

「Let nothing define us. Let nothing subjugate us. Let freedom be our very substance.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

「Existence precedes essence.」

Jean-Paul Sartre『Existentialism Is a Humanism (L'existentialisme est un humanisme)』

「Man is condemned to be free.」

Jean-Paul Sartre『Existentialism Is a Humanism』

「No one has the right to obey.」

Hannah Arendt『Widely cited in Eichmann context; exact first occurrence is debated』

「Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.」

Steve Jobs『Stanford University Commencement Address, June 12, 2005』

「Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.」

Marcus Aurelius『Meditations, Book 10, Chapter 16』

「Man conquers the world by conquering himself.」

Zeno of Citium

「The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.」

Zeno of Citium『Lives of the Eminent Philosophers』

「It is the quality of your life that matters, not its length.」

Seneca the Younger『Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Letter 77』

「The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.」

Chrysippus『Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta (SVF III, compiled by von Arnim)』

「Virtue is a kind of mean.」

Aristotle『Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, Ch.6, 1106b36-1107a2』

「It is not living that matters, but living rightly.」

Socrates『Plato, Crito 48b』

「No one desires evil.」

Socrates『Plato, Protagoras 345d-e』

「Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.」

Confucius『Analects, Wei Ling Gong 24』

「Treat humanity, in your own person or in another, always as an end and never merely as a means.」

Immanuel Kant『Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Chapter 2』

「It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

「The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.」

Hannah Arendt『The Life of the Mind (1978)』

「Conceive optimistically, plan pessimistically, execute optimistically.」

Kazuo Inamori『Kyocera Philosophy』

「The most important thing is being attentive to cycles.」

Howard Marks『The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor』

「You can't predict. You can prepare.」

Howard Marks

「In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.」

Benjamin Graham『Security Analysis, 1934』

「The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid.」

Benjamin Graham『The Intelligent Investor, Chapter 20, 1949』

「Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.」

Warren Buffett

「Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.」

Warren Buffett『Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter 2004』

「Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.」

Warren Buffett『Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter 2008』

「It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.」

Warren Buffett『Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter 1989』

「Our favorite holding period is forever.」

Warren Buffett『Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter 1988』

「Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.」

Warren Buffett

「It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.」

Charlie Munger『Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting』

「The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.」

Charlie Munger『Poor Charlie's Almanack』

「Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux, and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.」

George Soros『The Alchemy of Finance』

「It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.」

George Soros『The Alchemy of Finance』

「I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.」

George Soros

「He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.」

Ray Dalio『Principles: Life and Work (2017)』

「The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist.」

Ray Dalio

「Invest in what you know.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「Know what you own, and know why you own it.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「Buy stocks, take sleeping pills, and stop looking at the papers. After many years you will see: you are rich.」

André Kostolany『Die Kunst, uber Geld nachzudenken』

「The rich can speculate; the poor must not; the penniless have no choice but to speculate.」

André Kostolany

「It was never my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.」

Jesse Livermore『Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre, 1923)』

「The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses in Wall Street.」

Jesse Livermore『Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre, 1923)』

「I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip or a series of tips that will make more money for me than my own judgment.」

Jesse Livermore『Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre, 1923)』

「The most important investment decision you will make is how to allocate your assets.」

David F. Swensen『Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment』

「Investors should pay attention to what they own, not simply to the overall return of their portfolio.」

David F. Swensen『Pioneering Portfolio Management』

「In investing, you get what you don't pay for.」

John C. Bogle『The Little Book of Common Sense Investing』

「Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.」

John C. Bogle『The Little Book of Common Sense Investing』

「The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.」

John C. Bogle『Common Sense on Mutual Funds』

「The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.」

John C. Bogle『The Little Book of Common Sense Investing』

「If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.」

John C. Bogle

「The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest.」

John D. Rockefeller

「Competition is a sin.」

John D. Rockefeller

「No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.」

Andrew Carnegie

「Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.」

Henry Ford

「Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.」

Henry Ford

「A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.」

Henry Ford

「A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.」

Jack Ma

「Matsushita Electric is in the business of developing people. We also happen to make electrical products.」

Kōnosuke Matsushita『Internal address; PHP Institute archives』

「Commerce is the art of inspiring customers.」

Kōnosuke Matsushita『Similar phrasing in Wisdom on Commerce (PHP Institute)』

「Conceive optimistically, plan pessimistically, execute optimistically.」

Kazuo Inamori『Kyocera Philosophy』

「The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.」

Walt Disney

「Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought.」

Li Ka-shing

「I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.」

J. P. Morgan

「The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.」

John C. Bogle『The Little Book of Common Sense Investing』

「Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.」

Marcus Aurelius『Meditations, Book 10, Chapter 16』

「The beginning is half of the whole.」

Aristotle『Politics, Book V, Ch.4, 1303b29』

「Knowing it is less than loving it; loving it is less than delighting in it.」

Confucius『Analects, Yong Ye 20』

「A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.」

Laozi『Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64』

「The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

「It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

「Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.」

John D. Rockefeller

「Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.」

Thomas Edison

「Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.」

Henry Ford

「Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.」

Steve Jobs『Stanford University Commencement Address, June 12, 2005』

「I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from unsuccessful ones is pure perseverance.」

Steve Jobs『Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories, April 20, 1995』

「Open the shoji screen and look outside; the world is vast.」

Sakichi Toyoda『Biography of Sakichi Toyoda (compiled by Toyota Group)』

「It only becomes failure when you stop. Keep going until you succeed, and it becomes success.」

Kōnosuke Matsushita『The Path (PHP Institute, 1968)』

「Only about one percent of my work truly succeeded. Ninety-nine percent was failure. That one percent made me who I am.」

Soichiro Honda『Honda Soichiro: Yume wo Chikara ni - Watashi no Rirekisho (Nikkei Business Bunko)』

「Fear inaction more than you fear failure from taking on a challenge.」

Soichiro Honda

「Conceive optimistically, plan pessimistically, execute optimistically.」

Kazuo Inamori『Kyocera Philosophy』

「All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.」

Walt Disney

「The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.」

Walt Disney

「I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.」

Charlie Munger『USC Law School Commencement Speech, 2007』

「I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.」

J. P. Morgan

「The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.」

J. P. Morgan

「The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.」

John C. Bogle『The Little Book of Common Sense Investing』

「It is hard to retain what you learn unless you practice it.」

Seneca the Younger『Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Letter 84』

「Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.」

Hypatia

「We survive through adversity and perish through comfort.」

Mencius『Mencius, Gaozi II, Chapter 15』

「Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.」

Confucius『Analects, Wei Zheng 15』

「When three walk together, one is surely my teacher. I follow what is good and correct what is not.」

Confucius『Analects, Shu Er 22』

「Knowing it is less than loving it; loving it is less than delighting in it.」

Confucius『Analects, Yong Ye 20』

「In the pursuit of learning, one gains daily. In the pursuit of the Tao, one loses daily -- losing and losing until one arrives at wu wei. Through non-action, nothing is left undone.」

Laozi『Tao Te Ching, Chapter 48』

「What does not kill me makes me stronger.」

Friedrich Nietzsche『Twilight of the Idols (Gotzen-Dammerung), Maxims and Arrows 8』

「Do your duty and a little more, and the future will take care of itself.」

Andrew Carnegie『Widely attributed to Andrew Carnegie』

「The moment you say 'this is enough' is the moment decline begins.」

Shibusawa Eiichi『Rongo to Soroban (The Analects and the Abacus)』

「Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.」

Henry Ford

「Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.」

Bill Gates『Business @ the Speed of Thought (1999)』

「Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.」

Bill Gates『The Road Ahead (1995)』

「It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.」

Bill Gates

「Make an effort that yields to no one.」

Kazuo Inamori『Kyocera Philosophy』

「Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.」

Walt Disney『Disneyland opening day dedication speech』

「Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.」

Charlie Munger『Poor Charlie's Almanack』

「I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.」

Charlie Munger『USC Law School Commencement Speech, 2007』

「Pain plus reflection equals progress.」

Ray Dalio『Principles: Life and Work (2017)』

「If you're not failing, you're not pushing your limits, and if you're not pushing your limits, you're not maximizing your potential.」

Ray Dalio『Principles: Life and Work (2017)』

「Radical open-mindedness and radical transparency are invaluable for rapid learning and effective change.」

Ray Dalio『Principles: Life and Work (2017)』

「People seek retreats in the country, by the sea, in the mountains — but you can retire into yourself whenever you choose.」

Marcus Aurelius『Meditations, Book 4, Chapter 3』

「We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.」

Zeno of Citium『Lives of the Eminent Philosophers』

「The unexamined life is not worth living.」

Plato『Apology 38a』

「I know that I do not know.」

Plato『Apology 21d』

「I know that I know nothing.」

Socrates『Plato, Apology 21d (paraphrase; exact phrasing does not appear verbatim)』

「I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.」

Socrates『Later paraphrase based on Plato, Apology』

「The trouble with people is that they love playing teacher to others.」

Mencius『Mencius, Li Lou I, Chapter 23』

「When three walk together, one is surely my teacher. I follow what is good and correct what is not.」

Confucius『Analects, Shu Er 22』

「I transmit but do not create; I trust in and love the ancients.」

Confucius『Analects, Shu Er 1』

「To err and not correct it -- that is the real error.」

Confucius『Analects, Wei Ling Gong 30』

「The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete; it dwells in places others disdain, and so is close to the Tao.」

Laozi『Tao Te Ching, Chapter 8』

「It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

「Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.」

Steve Jobs『Stanford University Commencement Address, June 12, 2005』

「Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.」

Bill Gates『The Road Ahead (1995)』

「It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.」

Bill Gates

「A sunao (open) mind sees the truth of things without being trapped by preconceptions.」

Kōnosuke Matsushita『Developing a Sunao Mind (PHP Institute, 1976)』

「Is the motive good? Is there no selfish intent?」

Kazuo Inamori

「I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing -- that it was all started by a mouse.」

Walt Disney

「Before you point your fingers, make sure your hands are clean.」

Li Ka-shing

「The investor's chief problem — and even his worst enemy — is likely to be himself.」

Benjamin Graham『The Intelligent Investor, Chapter 8, 1949』

「Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.」

Warren Buffett

「I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.」

George Soros

「He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.」

Ray Dalio『Principles: Life and Work (2017)』

「Know what you own, and know why you own it.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.」

Jesse Livermore『Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre, 1923)』

「The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses in Wall Street.」

Jesse Livermore『Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre, 1923)』

「Markets are never wrong -- opinions often are.」

Jesse Livermore『How to Trade in Stocks (Jesse Livermore, 1940)』

「If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.」

John C. Bogle

「We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.」

Zeno of Citium『Lives of the Eminent Philosophers』

「Do your duty and a little more, and the future will take care of itself.」

Andrew Carnegie『Widely attributed to Andrew Carnegie』

「The investor's chief problem — and even his worst enemy — is likely to be himself.」

Benjamin Graham『The Intelligent Investor, Chapter 8, 1949』

「Know what you own, and know why you own it.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.」

Jesse Livermore『Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre, 1923)』

「The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses in Wall Street.」

Jesse Livermore『Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre, 1923)』

「The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.」

Zeno of Citium『Lives of the Eminent Philosophers』

「The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.」

Chrysippus『Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta (SVF III, compiled by von Arnim)』

「Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.」

Pythagoras『Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Book VIII』

「To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.」

Hypatia

「Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.」

Hypatia

「All human beings by nature desire to know.」

Aristotle『Metaphysics, Book I, 980a21』

「Virtue is a kind of mean.」

Aristotle『Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, Ch.6, 1106b36-1107a2』

「Man is by nature a political animal.」

Aristotle『Politics, Book I, Ch.2, 1253a2-3』

「It is not living that matters, but living rightly.」

Socrates『Plato, Crito 48b』

「No one desires evil.」

Socrates『Plato, Protagoras 345d-e』

「The feeling of compassion is the sprout of benevolence; shame, of righteousness; deference, of propriety; right and wrong, of wisdom.」

Mencius『Mencius, Gongsun Chou I, Chapter 6』

「Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.」

Confucius『Analects, Wei Ling Gong 24』

「Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.」

Confucius『Analects, Wei Zheng 15』

「Treat humanity, in your own person or in another, always as an end and never merely as a means.」

Immanuel Kant『Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Chapter 2』

「It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.」

Simone de Beauvoir『Pour une morale de l'ambiguite』

「The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.」

Hannah Arendt『The Life of the Mind (1978)』

「Trust is paramount in business. To earn the world's trust, you must first trust the world.」

Shibusawa Eiichi『Rongo to Soroban (The Analects and the Abacus)』

「One swallow does not make a spring.」

Aristotle『Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, Ch.7, 1098a18』

「Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.」

John D. Rockefeller『Random Reminiscences of Men and Events』

「Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.」

Thomas Edison

「If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.」

Jack Ma

「It only becomes failure when you stop. Keep going until you succeed, and it becomes success.」

Kōnosuke Matsushita『The Path (PHP Institute, 1968)』

「Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.」

Howard Marks

「In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.」

Benjamin Graham『Security Analysis, 1934』

「The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.」

Benjamin Graham『The Intelligent Investor, 1949』

「Our favorite holding period is forever.」

Warren Buffett『Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter 1988』

「Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.」

Warren Buffett

「It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.」

Charlie Munger『Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting』

「The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.」

Charlie Munger『Poor Charlie's Almanack』

「The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「Buy stocks, take sleeping pills, and stop looking at the papers. After many years you will see: you are rich.」

André Kostolany『Die Kunst, uber Geld nachzudenken』

「Stock market profits are pain money. First comes the pain, then the money.」

André Kostolany

「I cannot tell you how to get rich quickly, but I can tell you how to get poor quickly: by trying to get rich quickly.」

André Kostolany

「It was never my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.」

Jesse Livermore『Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre, 1923)』

「The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.」

Jesse Livermore『Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre, 1923)』

「Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.」

John C. Bogle『The Little Book of Common Sense Investing』

「The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.」

John C. Bogle『Common Sense on Mutual Funds』

「It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things.」

Epictetus『Enchiridion, Chapter 5』

「Anger, if not obeyed, fades; once it enters the mind and pervades habit, vice becomes law.」

Seneca the Younger『De Ira (On Anger)』

「Conceive optimistically, plan pessimistically, execute optimistically.」

Kazuo Inamori『Kyocera Philosophy』

「The most important thing is being attentive to cycles.」

Howard Marks『The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor』

「You can't predict. You can prepare.」

Howard Marks

「Risk means more things can happen than will happen.」

Howard Marks『The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor』

「The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid.」

Benjamin Graham『The Intelligent Investor, Chapter 20, 1949』

「Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.」

Warren Buffett

「Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.」

Warren Buffett

「Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux, and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.」

George Soros『The Alchemy of Finance』

「It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.」

George Soros『The Alchemy of Finance』

「The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.」

George Soros

「I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.」

George Soros

「He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.」

Ray Dalio『Principles: Life and Work (2017)』

「In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.」

Peter Lynch『Beating the Street』

「On the stock exchange, anything is possible, including the opposite.」

André Kostolany『Die Kunst, uber Geld nachzudenken』

「The rich can speculate; the poor must not; the penniless have no choice but to speculate.」

André Kostolany

「Stock market profits are pain money. First comes the pain, then the money.」

André Kostolany

「The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses in Wall Street.」

Jesse Livermore『Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre, 1923)』

「If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.」

John C. Bogle

「Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.」

Marcus Aurelius『Meditations, Book 10, Chapter 16』

「Man conquers the world by conquering himself.」

Zeno of Citium

「Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.」

Zeno of Citium

「It is hard to retain what you learn unless you practice it.」

Seneca the Younger『Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Letter 84』

「It is the quality of your life that matters, not its length.」

Seneca the Younger『Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Letter 77』

「Virtue is a kind of mean.」

Aristotle『Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, Ch.6, 1106b36-1107a2』

「One swallow does not make a spring.」

Aristotle『Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, Ch.7, 1098a18』

「The beginning is half of the whole.」

Aristotle『Politics, Book V, Ch.4, 1303b29』

「A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.」

Laozi『Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64』

「Think on the shop floor; act on the shop floor.」

Sakichi Toyoda

「Invention lies not in knowledge itself but in the ingenuity to apply it.」

Sakichi Toyoda

「An engineer is truly an engineer only when he creates something with his own hands.」

Soichiro Honda『Honda Soichiro: Yume wo Chikara ni - Watashi no Rirekisho (Nikkei Business Bunko)』

「The greatest happiness in life lies in turning your work into your passion.」

Seiroku Honda『My Confession of Wealth (Watashi no Zaisan Kokuhaku)』

「It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things.」

Epictetus『Enchiridion, Chapter 5』

「Anger, if not obeyed, fades; once it enters the mind and pervades habit, vice becomes law.」

Seneca the Younger『De Ira (On Anger)』

「The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.」

Peter Lynch『One Up on Wall Street』

「Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.」

Peter Lynch『Beating the Street』

「The rich can speculate; the poor must not; the penniless have no choice but to speculate.」

André Kostolany

「Stock market profits are pain money. First comes the pain, then the money.」

André Kostolany

「I cannot tell you how to get rich quickly, but I can tell you how to get poor quickly: by trying to get rich quickly.」

André Kostolany

「Markets are never wrong -- opinions often are.」

Jesse Livermore『How to Trade in Stocks (Jesse Livermore, 1940)』