The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
― Napoleon Hill―
In Nick Murray book , SIMPLE Wealth , INEVITABLE Wealth he explains that investing should be like planting a tree. You plant , you watch , you put some water , you do nothing, you don't take her from the ground in the winter, during winter the tree does not grow and then in the spring and summer it grows again.
It gives you shade & fruit and when you die you leave it to your kids.
This is my tree in my house below
After disaster in Stage 1 of TransPortugal I had my first victory ever in stage 6. TransPortugalMTB is a series of 8 Ultras in a Row. I did 55 hours last week on the bike. This year there was a lot of technical sections and I did an average of 18,5 km/h and finished 9th overall.
If you don't give up things change and from disaster I pulled out my first victory ever with help of my German friend Martin Crone.
It was one of the best moments of my life.
Never, never, never give up.
“All that matters is to survive. The rest is just words.” — Charles de Gaulle
“Yes, but I have something he will never have…. Enough”
At a billionaire’s party Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had ever earned from his popular novel Catch-22. Heller responds,“Yes, but I have something he will never have…. Enough”
"You might think you want an expensive car, a fancy watch, and a huge house. What you want is respect and admiration from other people, and you think having expensive stuff will bring it. It almost never does—especially from the people you want to respect and admire you.”
Morgan Housel
“All that matters is to survive. The rest is just words.” — Charles de Gaulle
Rain & more rain Sunday
I did not took enough food for 8 hours
I ate everything there was to eat and then there was only water, the sun came and my legs were gone
I finish the stage on foot, I could not climb. I am still in the competition so far. anything can happen.
Success is survival.
Turn off the TV that is step 1.
Just start, and when you start everything changes for the best....just do it
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
― RumiIf you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
fake compliments are horrible , but if you can congratulate your kids for something well done, make a party it's even better.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
If you find a winner , do nothing, sit
“The results also help to explain why active strategies, which tend to be poorly diversified, most often underperform,” says Bessembinder, who found that the largest returns come from very few stocks overall — just 86 stocks have accounted for $16 trillion in wealth creation, half of the stock market total, over the past 90 years. All of the wealth creation can be attributed to the thousand top-performing stocks, while the remaining 96 percent of stocks collectively matched one-month T-bills.
Picking multi-baggers isn't hard
Letting them turn into multi-baggers is
We have control over the way we react to what happens to us, yes we can control this. Only this. The rest is out of our hands.
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Socrates"If you can't be happy with a coffee, you won't be happy with a yacht."
--Naval
If I had a masters I would have a better career, this is simply false. You do much better in life if you start working as an apprentice of a very famous master and stay with him for many years , perhaps one day you inherit the business. Yes it's very typical for a father not to have kids interested in following the father footsteps.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
When I ear that Warren Buffet does not have a smart phone or computer, of curse it's possible to do well without multitasking/rushing
The king of cashmere doesn't want distractions either
From:Wiki:
Established in 1978 in the picturesque town of Solomeo, Italy, this brand has become a global symbol of Italian craftsmanship and artisanal excellence. From its impeccable tailoring to its premium materials and timeless designs, Brunello Cucinelli stands out as a brand that convey Quiet Luxury.
From :Brunello Cucinelli 10 core ideas, Quartz
Also, mobile phones and emails have certain rules: No, it’s not 24/7, because here in the company, you start at 8 AM, and at 5:30 PM you are forbidden to work any further. No emails can be sent to more than two addresses, just one or two. No group mailing. Why must a single email be read by 10 different people, unless it’s the 10 people who are interested in that specific issue? In order to disperse responsibility?
Here, we have no meetings with mobile phones. No one is allowed to bring them into the meeting room. You must look me in the eye. You must know things by heart. You must know all of your business with a 1 to 2 percent error rate. It is also training for your mind. It is also a question of respect, because I have never called someone on a Saturday or a Sunday. No one is allowed to do so. We must discover this, because if individuals rest properly, then it is better.
"If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit."
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
Jack Nicklaus
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Vince Lombardi
In 15 years of bike racing I quit once. After that I blame myself until today it was a really bad decision. besides that I never quit either in marriage or in business sometimes even after things are behind repair...
On that day on the bike I spent the first 3 hours with an Heart rate of 170 and then above 160 until I quit after 5 hours . I eat poorly and my brain was not functioning well with lack of sugar, I thought I was doing very badly when in retrospect they told me I crossed Marão mountain in the top 10, I was completely empty and without food. On that day I did a lot of mistakes. Too fast, not enough food etc...
besides that I quit Transportugal Roads but to go to the Hospital and the bike was ruined.
I hope I will never quit again. I hope the phrase if you quit once you became a quieter does not apply to me!!!
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Find/create a problem , scare the public, pretend to solve the problem , take care of you and your friends during the process make sure the problem is never resolved
When people have everything perhaps they don't have kids . Or perhaps the cost of living is so high that we need both parents to work a full job and kids are a huge expense if you have a full time job.
"The only ones who get rich by oppressing the working class are the politicians. Capitalists get rich by producing a product the world wants or needs. The more people they sell to the richer they can become. There is nothing evil or immoral about that. "
“Good businesses are ethical businesses.”
- Charlie Munger
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
