Quotes from books, movies, and life

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms farther..."

— The Great Gatsby — Green light

"What would you do to live a happier life if you could live over again?"

— Warren Buffet

"In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

“Capitalism is great at making people want things they don’t need.”

"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not true at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done,”

“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything,”

— Scottish historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle.

“Behaviour is a function of social context”

“We overestimate the subjective continuity of ourselves as individuals.”

“The most effective number of people in a group to magnify the epidemic potential of an idea or message”