Quotes I’m Pondering
(Tim Ferriss: Nov. 6–Dec. 4, 2015)
“Diversity in counsel, unity in command.”
–Cyrus the Great
Founder of the Achaemenid Empire, known as the “king of Persia”
“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
–Herbert Bayard Swope
American editor and journalist, first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
“One should use common words to say uncommon things.”
–Arthur Schopenhauer
Renowned 19th-century German philosopher
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
–Marcus Aurelius
Emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher, author of Meditations