“So you have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.”
Charlie Munger
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“I don’t play in a game where the other people are wise and I’m stupid. I look for a place where I’m wise and they’re stupid.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“The first rule of war is to concentrate superior strength for decisive action and to avoid division of force or engaging in detail.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”
— Jack London Primary source“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.”
— Jack London Primary sourcePower Focus War Concentration Competence