Will Smith's wisdom in pills

Via @jmpelaez

Regulación de mercados (quotes)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

Visto en el ezine de Angelnews

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe

Todo un clásico visto hoy en Mahalo

El primo de Nelson (quotes)

Me ha encantado este post de un antiquario que no conocía y parece ser primo de Nelson

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think"

-Horace Walpole


Visto en Quotes of the Day


EDITO: Nelson el almirante, no el de los Simpsons ;)

Entrevista en infonomia

Adjunto enlace a infonomía, donde aparece en portada mi entrevista por ser la persona veinte mil que se une a su red.

Les ha faltado apuntar que la cita sobre el futuro es de Sarah Connor ("There is no fate but what we make") aunque claro, no son Microsiervos

Control (quotes)

Lo controlable nunca es totalmente real, y lo real nunca es totalmente controlable.

– Vladimir Nabokov, escritor



Post en Microsiervos

52 Must Read Quotes from Legendary Investor - Warren Buffett (quotes)

1. A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
2. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
3. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
4. I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
5. I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
6. I don’t have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It’s like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don’t do that though. I don’t use very many of those claim checks. There’s nothing material I want very much. And I’m going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die.
7. I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
8. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
9. If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
10. If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
11. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
12. In the business world, the rear view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
13. Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.
14. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
15. It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
16. It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
17. I’ve reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death – abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term ‘thinking outside the box.’
18. Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
19. Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
20. Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac’s talents didn’t extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, ‘I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.’ If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases
21. Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can’t buy what is popular and do well.
22. Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
23. Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
24. Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
25. Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.
26. Our favorite holding period is forever.
    
27. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
28. Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
29. Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
30. Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
31. Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
32. The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
33. The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
34. The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball. They know that overstaying the festivities — that is, continuing to speculate in companies that have gigantic valuations relative to the cash they are likely to generate in the future — will eventually bring on pumpkins and mice. But they nevertheless hate to miss a single minute of what is one helluva party. Therefore, the giddy participants all plan to leave just seconds before midnight. There’s a problem, though: They are dancing in a room in which the clocks have no hands.
35. The only time to buy these is on a day with no “y” in it.
36. The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
37. There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don’t understand, but that doesn’t cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that’s what the individual investor should do.
38. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
39. Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
40. Value is what you get.
41. We believe that according the name ‘investors’ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‘romantic.’
42. We don’t get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we’ll wait, we’ll wait indefinitely.
43. We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
44. We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
45. We’ve long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.
46. When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
47. When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
48. Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful”.
49. Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
50. You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
51. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
52. Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business

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Working for free (quotes)

"It doesn’t matter if you’re a dog walker, a Web designer or a tax preparer. When you agree to work free, you reinforce people’s misguided ideas that the self-employed are independently wealthy hobbyists. Don’t degrade your profession by letting a cheap client take advantage of you."
-Michelle Goodman

En su artículo en el NYT Michelle Goodman explica cómo enfoca sus trabajos "probono" de "marketing", "sweat equity" y "causas". Es una lectura más que recomendada para cualquier profesional freelance.

Releyendo a Paul Graham

Acabo de conseguir eliminar una de esas torres de documentos por leer que se reproducen en cuanto te descuidas y he encontrado estas notas que apunté sobre los essays de Paul Graham en algún momento.

• People at startups work harder because retribution is binary
• Disruptive technologies are created by disruptive people
  
• Switching a company from consulting to product revenues is hard
  
• When a startup is bought 6 months down the road for 3M$ its more a sign on bonus than an acquisition. Companies are beginning to merge recruiting and product development
• On the Internet anything genuinely good will be spread by word of mouth

A ver si un día de estos me animo a postear en más detalle sobre este interesante gurú



Nota: No pongo "italica" porque hay algo de rephrasing y no son citas originales

Relevancia (quotes)

"Twitter, Flickr y Facebook hacen que los blogs se vean muy como de 2004»: es un artículo que dice que ya no es relevante escribir weblogs. Esto se publicó en Wired, que dejó de ser relevante en 1999"

– Zeldman

Via Microsiervos

Entrepreneur quote wall

Adjunto el prometido post con algunas de las quotes que han pasado por el "Entrepreneur quote wall" de Okuri, Iremos añadiendo más en un gSite de Okuri Spaces

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
-Steve Jobs

“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.”
-E. Joseph Cossman

“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from
being perfect.”
-Adam Osborne

“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”
-Robert H. Schuller

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think
about that, you'll do things differently.”
-Warren Buffett

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work"
- Thomas Edison

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary"
- Vidal Sassoon

"The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning - to create a product or service to make the world a better place"
- Guy Kawasaki

"The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you
earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place"
- Jim Rohn

"Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make"
- Donald Trump

"The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities"
- Michael Gerber

"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
- Richard Branson

"We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm."
- Bill Gates


Y mi favorita


"My son is now an 'entrepreneur'. That's what you're called when you don't have a job."
- Ted Turner

Bolsa vs economía real

"Someone far wiser than I once said that the market has predicted ten of the last seven recessions"

-Damodaran

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Dinero para startups (quotes)

"Trying to raise venture capital in the next year is going to be like trying to raise the dead"

-Ted Dziuba

Nota: el post al que enlaza pone verde a Paul Graham, uno de los gurus que más respeto

Strategy (Quotes)

"Strategy is the art of being consistently lucky"

-Peter Zemsky

Perlas de días de cine (Quotes)

Me acabo de cruzar con una lista de los grandes "quotes" de Dias de Cine



“Llega el momento de la publicidad, disfrutad del cine si podéis. Si no, también tenéis la música, la literatura o incluso la historia, a no ser que queráis ser presidente del Gobierno.”

“Servidor se confiesa seguidor de Philip K. Dick, quizás por ello me he convertido en un trastornado.”

“Jeunet es el director de ese engendro, película para algunos (estaban equivocados), ladrillo para otro (estábamos en lo cierto) que fue Amelie.”

“Ahora vamos con “El señor de los anillos”, película basada en un famosísimo libro… que yo no me he leído. Sin embargo, les diré como anécdota, que algunos de mis amigos tienen, en una estantería totalmente vacía, junto con su foto de sus vacaciones en Calasparra, un ejemplar de “El señor de los anillos”.”

“…Lo mejor del festival de Venecia, mi acompañante, aunque por desgracia este enamorada de otro.”

“…Soy consciente que a la hora de emisión de mi programa solo puede ser visto por un puñado de poli toxicómanos insomnes.”

“Tan guapa actriz como mala la película que ha venido a promocionar.”

“Ben Affleck es a la buena interpretación lo que un pepinillo cocido a la alta cocina.”

“Se estrena estos días la película El último samurai, protagonizada por el ex-marido de Nicole Kidman, único dato destacable de este actor llamado Tom Cruise.”

“Para ir al cine con esta cartelera hay que tener coeficiente intelectual negativo.”

“Veamos el reportaje de Mar adentro que ha realizado mi compañero y amigo Alberto Bermejo, el único de todo el equipo al que le ha gustado la película.”

“Nunca se fíen de algo que sangra durante cuatro días y no se muere.”

“Y ahora, si nos perdonan, vamos a hablar de cine español.”

“Es incuestionable que Kill Bill es una virtuosa obra de dirección. Lo que es cuestionable es si es algo más.”

“Sé que aguantaran a estas altas horas de la noche el momento de publicidad ya que al regreso tenemos un especial del salón del cine erótico de Barcelona….”

“¿Qué seria de nosotros sin un país inteligente como es Francia?”

“Buenas noches a todos, pero antes de despedirnos, un consejo: no os droguéis, porque la ingesta de estas sustancias puede producir efectos indeseados. Un amigo mío se tomó el otro día cierta pastilla y creyó ver a George Bush leyendo un libro”

“Y llegamos a la pausa en este programa del que tan orgullosos nos sentimos. No así de algunas compañeras de la 7ª planta de Torrespaña que fuman saltándose la norma que tanto nos beneficia a todos.”

“Les deseo que pasen una buena semana, sea lo que sea lo que hayan decidido hacer, incluso si es de Nazareno auto flagelante.”

“Aprovechen la pausa para revisar su agenda de amigos, encontrarán que han malgastado su preciado tiempo y paciencia en conocer a un montón de ineptos, no se corten, cojan un boli y táchenlos.”

“Durante la pausa publicitaria, rezaré con la esperanza de que ninguno de sus hijos se haya presentado al casting de Operación Triunfo.”

“Nos vamos con la esperanza de que ninguno se deje llevar por los fanatismos religiosos, políticos o sexuales: los primeros por no llevar a nada, los segundos porque el objeto de deseo suele ser un idiota de renombre y los últimos por las continuas frustraciones.”

“Antes de despedirme, felicitar a todos los barcelonistas por el reciente titulo de liga conseguido por mi equipo. En esta vida hay pocas cosas tan grandes como el Barcelona.”

“Llego la pausa, evitar cambiar de canal en estos minutos no vaya a ser que os encontréis con esa mujer con ansias de fama, exhibiéndose en publico, justificando un frío asesinato.” (se refería a la mujer que ayudo a morir a Ramón Sampedro, reconociendo su responsabilidad en un programa de la tele)

“Vamos a una pausa publicitaria, que será tan corta como el sueldo del presentador.”

“Hasta el próximo programa. No sabemos ni qué día ni a qué hora nos pondrán, de modo que estén atentos.”

“Sed buenos, y si por lo que fuera no podéis, seguid siendo malos, la diferencia es mínima.”

“Quiero aprovechar, como amante de la Fórmula 1, para felicitar al corredor alemán Michael Schumacher por su triunfo en el Gran Premio de San Marino. Da gusto ver en lo más alto del podium a personas ni fatuas, ni engreídas, ni desagradecidas. Espero que continúe la racha.”

“Hola, buenas noches. Hoy les hablo desde Torrespaña en Madrid, más conocido como el pirulí, que con su forma fálica es un símbolo de la modernidad de esta ciudad. Como modernas también son las vidrieras de la Catedral de la Almudena y las pinturas del altar de un tal Kiko no sé qué. Por cierto, igual de horribles que algunas películas.”

“Cuando vuelvan de la publicidad me habré desnudado y me tiraré al mar (En Cannes)”. Evidentemente a la vuelta de la publicidad dio su explicación: “Era un patético intento por mantener la audiencia…..”

“La verdad es que hay días que no sé dónde refugiarme políticamente.”

“Ahora pueden ustedes hacer un montón de cosas aprovechando los interminables minutos de publicidad.”


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Consejos (Quotes)

Wise men dont need advice, fools dont take it
-Benjamin Franklin

Moonlanding (Quotes)

Hoy es el aniversario del (supuesto) aterrizaje en la luna, lo que me lleva a la (no tan famosa) frase que pronunció Armstrong nada más aterrizar

“Good luck, Mr Gorsky.”
-Neil Armstrong, 20 de julio de 1969

La explación de esta frase no llegó hasta 1995, cuando Armstrong explicó que siendo un chaval en Ohio escuchó a su vecina gritando a su marido otra frase para recordar

“Oral sex! You want oral sex? You’ll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!”
-Mrs Gorsky

Post recopilatorio Quotes

2006 Q2

• Democracia
• Sistemas Políticos
• Skiing
• Objetivos
• Choice
• Apuestas
• Evolución
• Arreglando el Planeta
• Relatividad
• Empresas
• Procastination

2006 Q1

• The Universe
• Plans
• The Power of China
• Sun Tzu
• Kung Fu
• The Meaning of Life
• Eureka
• Principios
• Adrenaline Junkies
• Business Deals
• El Hombre Renacentista
• Gambling
• Definición de ordenador a prueba de hackers
• Quotes

Sistemas Políticos (Quotes)

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

-Charles Bukowski

Choice (Quotes)

Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

-Steve Jobs to John Sculley