A thread on how others words can engrave your soul:
I started a practice 10 years ago.
Every book I read I would write down the words that spoke to me.
Creating my own bible.
So that when times were dark, I had a light.
These are the ones I come back to again and again.
Emotion haunted his face. It was anguish, some kind of anguish, and the dull, stoic anger that hangs in the eyes of repetitive, ill-paid work.
- Shantaram
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
- Letters to a Young Contrarian
In the future, there will be two types of jobs: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.”
- Chaos Monkeys
We want to make good time but for us now this is measured with emphasis on "good" rather than "time..." and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes.
- Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.
This was the way she had expected to live—she had wanted to spend no hour and take no action that would mean less than this.
- Atlas Shrugged
He pictured his fighting men as bees routing the rabbits. And he thought: the day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
- Dune
There are only two kinds of leaders those who welcome the truth, and those who despise it.
- Shantaram
One doesn’t become aware of the emptiness in which one has allowed time to go by until one truly lives.
- Labyrinth of the Spirits
One knows one is alive because it hurts, because suddenly everything matters, and because when that brief moment is over, the rest of one’s existence becomes a memory to which one tries in vain to return while there is some breath left in one’s body.
- Labyrinth of the Spirits
There is no man, no place, without war. All we can do is choose a side.
- Shantaram
We are still free as a people to choose whether we shall continue speeding down the “road to serfdom"
- Free to Choose
I’m just a collection of mirrors, reflecting what everyone else expects of me.”
- Man's Search for HImself
It’s a mess, but we didn’t make it.
- Shantaram
The things you used to own, now they own you.
- Fight Club
Life is short but made of long nights.
- Shantaram
TLDR:
- Intake
- Document
- Internalize
- Think
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He makes $10K a month operating vending machines??
How @quinnjmiller plays the Charlie Chocolate of robotic machines game.
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Give me the numbers baby....
Monthly run rate: $15k
Margins: 65%
Net profit: $9,750
Number of machines: 27
Total investment into biz: $50k
Time involvement weekly: 20hrs
What he could sell his biz for... $371kish maybe $400k
80/20 Rule Matters: What he sells most of?
12oz coke
I buy this item for $.33 (each) & sell for $1, this is a 67% margin
- a suburban man, who gets up at the same hour every weekday morning,
- takes the same train to work in the city,
- performs the same task in the office,
- lunches at the same place,
- leaves the same tip for the waitress each day
Comes home on the same train each night
- Has 2.3 children
- Cultivates a little garden
- Spends a 2-week vacation every summer which he does not enjoy
- Goes to church every Christmas and Easter