More quotes (of quotes) from Giverny Capital presentation

To obtain better results than the others, you must do something DIFFERENT from the others.
To do something different, you have to walk your own path.
And, a path is not something you find, it is something you CREATE.

Being an entrepreneur means making mistakes and recovering from them fast

source: Geopolitical Journey, Part 3: Romania | STRATFOR

Europe’s regulations are drawn with a focus on the highly developed countries. The laws on employment guarantees mean that Europeans don’t hire workers, they adopt them. That means that entrepreneurship is difficult. Being an entrepreneur, as I well know, means making mistakes and recovering from them fast. Given the guarantees that every worker has in Europe, an entrepreneur cannot quickly recover from his mistakes.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/12697/64796

...organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

The Sole Purpose of Education

The Sole Purpose of Education
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By Barry Ritholtz - November 12th, 2010, 2:00PM

In 1914, John Alexander Smith, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, addressed the first session of his two-year lecture course as follows:

“Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies that (will) form a noble adventure…Let me make this clear to you. ..nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life – save only this – that if you work hard and intelligently, you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole purpose of education.”

Successful investing by Jim Rogers

"Successful investing means getting in early, when things are cheap, when everything is distressed when everyone is demoralized. To make a killing, you really need to get in during a time of dispair."

Jim Rogers

贾樟柯电影观感

Source: myself

《河上的爱情》短短20分钟, 将人生,感情的无奈表现得如此到位, 同时留下无限的回味，感慨和想象空间. 看之前我还担心20分钟是不是太短了, 会不会是敗笔. 看完方知那完全是杞人忧天, 以常人之智度大师之才. 《恋曲1990》与影片更是绝配! 贾樟柯电影的选曲, 一首其貌不扬的流行歌曲, 被他天衣无缝地放在片子的某个时间, 地点, 情节, 便顿时被升华, 例如《车站》的《是否》, 《三峡好人》的《浪奔,浪流》.
张艺谋自《英雄》之后, 陈凯歌从《荆轲刺秦》开始, 两人便都成了烧钱造势的空壳. 与曾经的《秋菊打官司》, 《霸王别姬》天壤之别. 贾樟柯则象蓝筹股一样稳步增长. 看他的风格, 也许不会步张陈的后尘. 但愿!