IJIN Lab - World's Greatest Minds

「Endure and renounce.」

「Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.」

「Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.」

「The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.」

「Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.」

「If you carve without ceasing, even metal and stone can be engraved.」

「We survive through adversity and perish through comfort.」

「He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.」

「What does not kill me makes me stronger.」

「Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.」

「The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.」

「Divide each difficulty into as many parts as possible for a better solution.」

「All life is problem solving.」

「Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.」

「If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.」

「Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.」

「To create original products, you need an environment where original people can operate freely.」

「Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.」

「Solving big problems is easier than solving small ones.」

「Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.」

「Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.」

「Courage begins the difficult deed, but fortune governs its outcome.」

「The beginning is half of the whole.」

「A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.」

「This mind is luminous — what more is there to say?」

「The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.」

「It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.」

「The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.」

「Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.」

「Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.」

「Favorable timing is less important than geographical advantage, and that is less important than unity among people.」

「We bet on people.」

「Give the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver.」

「A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.」

「Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.」

「Competition is a sin.」

「The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest.」

「What is the root of wealth? Benevolence and moral principle. Unless grounded in right reason, wealth cannot endure.」

「Well done is better than well said.」

「I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.」

「Knowing it is less than loving it; loving it is less than delighting in it.」

「The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.」

「Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.」

「Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.」

「If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.」

「Whether you think you can, or you think you can't -- you're right.」

「If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.」

「Diligence is the mother of good luck.」

「Energy and persistence conquer all things.」

「Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.」

「It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.」

「All things flow.」

「Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.」

「For Being is, and non-Being is not.」

「Friends are companions on a journey who ought to help each other persevere on the road to a happier life.」

「He who would be tranquil should not undertake too many things, either private or public.」

「It is not living that matters, but living rightly.」

「The unexamined life is not worth living.」

「Live unknown.」

「Everything perfect proceeds outward from its own perfection.」

「The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.」

「We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.」

「Even among barbarians, pride sometimes yields to wisdom, and Ares stands in awe of the Muses.」

「Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.」

「You must learn all things: both the steadfast heart of well-rounded Truth and the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true trust.」

「For thinking and Being are the same.」

「Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few.」

「Color exists by convention, sweet by convention, bitter by convention; in reality there are only atoms and void.」

「I know that I know nothing.」

「I know that I do not know.」

「Cato, while he lived, lived in such a way that he lacked nothing — so long as he was free to die.」

「Character is destiny.」

「If I were not Alexander, I would wish to be Diogenes.」

「Stand a little out of my sunlight.」

「What frees you from slavery is not wealth but needing nothing.」

「In the northern darkness there is a fish called Kun. The Kun is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans. It transforms into a bird called Peng. The back of the Peng is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans.」

「The exemplary person demands it of himself; the petty person demands it of others.」

「A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.」

「World history is progress in the consciousness of freedom.」

「Only he who has tasted freedom can feel the desire to make over everything in its image.」

「The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.」

「It is the quality of your life that matters, not its length.」

「The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.」

「Man conquers the world by conquering himself.」

「Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.」

「Evil, too, has its place within the scheme of the Good.」

「It is not living that matters, but living rightly.」

「No one desires evil.」

「Virtue is a kind of mean.」

「Man is by nature a political animal.」

「By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.」

「Conceive optimistically, plan pessimistically, execute optimistically.」

「I look at a company the way a private buyer would look at it.」

「You have to understand the business before you understand the stock.」

「The key to investing is figuring out what something is worth and paying less for it.」

「Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match.」

「Buying good companies at bargain prices is the secret to making a lot of money.」

「The stock market is there to serve you, not to instruct you.」

「You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets.」

「The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.」

「Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.」

「We bet on people.」

「A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.」

「Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.」

「Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.」

「Competition is a sin.」

「The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest.」

「What is the root of wealth? Benevolence and moral principle. Unless grounded in right reason, wealth cannot endure.」

「Well done is better than well said.」

「I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.」

「Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.」

「Courage begins the difficult deed, but fortune governs its outcome.」

「The beginning is half of the whole.」

「Knowing it is less than loving it; loving it is less than delighting in it.」

「A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.」

「The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.」

「It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.」

「Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.」

「Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.」

「Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.」

「It is hard to retain what you learn unless you practice it.」

「Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.」

「Blue dye is extracted from the indigo plant, yet it is bluer than indigo itself.」

「Learning must never cease.」

「Knowing it is less than loving it; loving it is less than delighting in it.」

「When three walk together, one is surely my teacher. I follow what is good and correct what is not.」

「Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.」

「In the pursuit of learning, one gains daily. In the pursuit of the Tao, one loses daily -- losing and losing until one arrives at wu wei. Through non-action, nothing is left undone.」

「We survive through adversity and perish through comfort.」

「Investigate things to extend knowledge.」

「We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.」

「Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.」

「Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.」

「It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.」

「I know that I know nothing.」

「I know that I do not know.」

「Others are others, I am I — regardless, I walk the path I walk.」

「Learning must never cease.」

「When three walk together, one is surely my teacher. I follow what is good and correct what is not.」

「I transmit but do not create; I trust in and love the ancients.」

「As in all things, we suffer from excess in reading too. Many books are a burden, not an ornament.」

「We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.」

「Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.」

「Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.」

「It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.」

「Tranquility arises for human beings from moderation in enjoyment and a balanced life.」

「He who would be tranquil should not undertake too many things, either private or public.」

「For those who want more, time is never enough.」

「The pleasant life is produced not by endless drinking and revelry but by sober reasoning.」

「Others are others, I am I — regardless, I walk the path I walk.」

「The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.」

「Begin each day by telling yourself: today I shall meet with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness.」

「Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.」

「To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.」

「Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.」

「It is not living that matters, but living rightly.」

「No one desires evil.」

「Ethics is the ground of being of human community — the way of aidagara (betweenness) between person and person.」

「Blue dye is extracted from the indigo plant, yet it is bluer than indigo itself.」

「Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.」

「Endure and renounce.」

「Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.」

「Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.」

「Learning must never cease.」

「If you carve without ceasing, even metal and stone can be engraved.」

「He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.」

「Between your preparation and your goals, there is one important bridge called discipline.」

「Energy and persistence conquer all things.」

「If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together.」

「We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.」

「To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily; not to dare is to lose oneself.」

「By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.」

「If you're not genuinely pained by the risk involved in your strategic choices, it's not much of a strategy.」

「Conceive optimistically, plan pessimistically, execute optimistically.」

「Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match.」

「The magic formula works, but most people don't have the patience to stick with it.」

「The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.」

「The central truth of the investment business is that investment behavior is driven by career risk.」

「I try to invest in companies where the downside is limited and the upside is significant.」

「I try to learn from every mistake. When we lose money, I want to understand exactly why we lost it.」

「As in all things, we suffer from excess in reading too. Many books are a burden, not an ornament.」

「It is hard to retain what you learn unless you practice it.」

「Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.」

「Man conquers the world by conquering himself.」

「Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.」

「The knowledge and contemplation of nature is somehow defective and incomplete unless action follows.」

「Tranquility arises for human beings from moderation in enjoyment and a balanced life.」

「He who would be tranquil should not undertake too many things, either private or public.」

「For those who want more, time is never enough.」

「It is not living that matters, but living rightly.」

「The magic formula works, but most people don't have the patience to stick with it.」

「The stock market is there to serve you, not to instruct you.」

「The central truth of the investment business is that investment behavior is driven by career risk.」

「The stock market is the only business I know that when things go on sale, the customers run out of the store.」

「Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it — even though others may hesitate or differ.」

「Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.」

「To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are avidly buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest ultimate rewards.」

「The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.」

「Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.」

「The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.」