What are some philosophies you live by?

[Luffy]

One of mine I recently thought of is the idea of paying something forward, instead of seeking out the person who helped you and shower him/her with praise and telling them how grateful you are. The true way to thank them would be helping someone like they helped you, passing on their knowledge/good deed.

 

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[Goobii]

Be Good. Do Good.

 

[Jamesdoesmith]

You will lose money chasing women, but you will never lose women while chasing money

 

[AntEmpire]

Trust that everything will work out.

It's a line I lifted from Steve Jobs commencement address to Stanford University in 2005. It's the one thing I say to myself when some days are so rough it feels as though the ground is about to be snatched from under me.

His address is one of my favorite motivational pieces of all time. If you've never watched/read it, I highly encourage you to do so.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

 

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[vinylawesome]

"I want to say right here that whenever any one offers to let you in on the ground floor it’s a pretty safe rule to take the elevator to the roof garden."
-John Graham

"I remember when I was selling goods for old Josh Jennings, back in the sixties, and had rounded up about a thousand in a savings-bank—a mighty hard thousand, that came a dollar or so at a time, and every dollar with a little bright mark where I had bit it—I roomed with a dry-goods clerk named Charlie Chase. Charlie had a hankering to be a rich man; but somehow he could never see any connection between that hankering and his counter, except that he’d hint to me sometimes about an heiress who used to squander her father’s money shamefully for the sake of having Charlie wait on her. But when it came to getting rich outside the dry-goods business and getting rich in a hurry, Charlie was the man.

Along about Tuesday night—he was paid on Saturday—he’d stay at home and begin to scheme. He’d commence at eight o’clock and start a magazine, maybe, and before midnight he’d be turning away subscribers because his presses couldn’t print a big enough edition. Or perhaps he wouldn’t feel literary that night, and so he’d invent a system for speculating in wheat and go on pyramiding his purchases till he’d made the best that Cheops did look like a five-cent plate of ice cream.

All he ever needed was a few hundred for a starter, and to get that he’d decide to let me in on the ground floor. I want to say right here that whenever any one offers to let you in on the ground floor it’s a pretty safe rule to take the elevator to the roof garden. I never exactly refused to lend Charlie the capital he needed, but we generally compromised on half a dollar next morning, when he was in a hurry to make the store to keep from getting docked.

He dropped by the office last week, a little bent and seedy, but all in a glow and trembling with excitement in the old way. Told me he was President of the Klondike Exploring, Gold Prospecting and Immigration Company, with a capital of ten millions. I guessed that he was the board of directors and the capital stock and the exploring and the prospecting and the immigrating, too—everything, in fact, except the business card he’d sent in; for Charlie always had a gift for nosing out printers who’d trust him. Said that for the sake of old times he’d let me have a few thousand shares at fifty cents, though they would go to par in a year. In the end we compromised on a loan of ten dollars, and Charlie went away happy.

The swamps are full of razor-backs like Charlie, fellows who’d rather make a million a night in their heads than five dollars a day in cash.

I have always found it cheaper to lend a man of that build a little money than to hire him. As a matter of fact, I have never known a fellow who was smart enough to think for the house days and for himself nights. A man who tries that is usually a pretty poor thinker, and he isn’t much good to either; but if there’s any choice the house gets the worst of it."

-John Graham, 1890's

 

[Journey2Million$]

Live Free or Die

 

[shrugs]

If its not 100% voluntary, its 100% immoral


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[Mattie]

One of mine I recently thought of is the idea of paying something forward, instead of seeking out the person who helped you and shower him/her with praise and telling them how grateful you are. The true way to thank them would be helping someone like they helped you, passing on their knowledge/good deed.

Smart thing to do.

This sums it up for me in this video!

 

[Darius]

"When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world.

Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That's a very limited life.

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."