WHY NATIONS FAIL
DARON ACEMOGLU & JAMES A. ROBINSON
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If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we’d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.
You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
One always has a better book in one’s mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
