Inspirational Quotes
Hey guys!
I wanted to share this topic because I think it reflects one thing we all have in common, which is eagerness to success, I mean if we're all on this forum, there must be a reason right, now some of you may have achieved success and the others may be on the right path, determined to break through IB
just a quick thank you by the way to all the experienced Investment Bankers out there on this forum, that enjoy mentoring young and ambitious fellows like myself, answering their questions and putting their experience in the service of motivated young minds
I think it would be cool to share some of the motos that we live by, I mean IB is hard, but we hang on to it because we have our own personal rules, because we just don't give up and we simply want to thrive one way or the other and it's good to remember them from one time to another, it keeps us going and boosts us to be better..
Here's one of my favourites!
"Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny , they’re not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance, if the circumstances around them suck they change them."
Please feel free to share your own quotes, it's always enjoyable to read poetic things that don't necessarily come out from Bloomberg or FT!!
From Paris with love! (I really gotta stop using that line it's getting old ... )
x
This poem helps keep me grounded; thought i would share.
If- Rudyard Kipling.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Love it, got it at the end of my elementary school written at the back of some diploma.
A good video (from 01:16):
"We're all children pretending to be adults" - SSits
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"There is no victory at bargain basement prices." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer" -A. Scwarzenegger
"making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision”
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams"
Both by Paulo Coelho
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less." -C.S. Lewis
Important to stay grounded and humble as many of us will go on to make relatively large amounts of money.
“I talked to my team before the playoffs, and my message to them was simple: ‘Keep a fresh cut.’ You want to make sure your haircut looks good, because when we continue to do what we’ve talked about doing, the media room will be filled, articles will be written and people will be talking about you. You don’t want to look back on it, like I look back at some of my old playoff moments, and wonder why I didn’t visit the barbershop.”
— Former Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson
'If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs' 'When you expect things to happen, strangely enough, they do happen' 'Fail to prepare and prepare to fail' 'Be yourself, everyone else is taken'
'I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you.' - very good quote by Eminem on keeping yourself grounded
and one of my fav vid which I try to live by
'You gotta act, and you gotta be willing to fail. You gotta be willing to crash and burn. With people on the phone, with starting a company, with whatever. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.'
I wil go with any quote from Think and Grow Rich, Seven Stretegies of Wealth and Happiness, or 10 Secrets of Abundant Wealth.
"No." - Rosa Parks
“To define is to limit.” -Oscar Wilde
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'
Fortune favors the bold. Simple and effective.
fortune favors the brave
Nah, doesn't apply to me. I'm not brave, just bold. To be honest, I'm a fucking pussy.
"Hey. Don't ever let somebody tell you... You can't do something. Not even me. All right? ; You got a dream... You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it. Period." - The Pursuit of Happyness
"He who walks his own path of greatness will never be ancient."
-- Lil B The Based God
If I don't end up on top, let me run the bottom -- Based God If you're going through hell, keep going -- Churchill
"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents"- Andrew Carnegie
"The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy." Lance Armstrong
"I go to work every day with people smarter than me, who are better at what they do than me. I go to the gym every day and work out with people stronger and faster than me. I spend my spare time with friends and family whose values and quality of character I aspire to reflect. For all of these reasons, I get a little better, every day."
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"Dress like you listen to Sinatra and act like you listen to Pac"
"They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you"
"They want you to do better, as long as you don't do better than them. Don't be surprised if your success turns friends into strangers. Everybody loves you until you become competition"
"A well-tailored suit is to woman what lingerie is to men"
"Learn to say "no" without explaining yourself"
"Dress like you're going to meet your worst enemy today"
"No matter how you feel. get up, dress up, show up, and never give up"
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Spend Arab
"Learn to say "no" without explaining yourself"
Beautiful. SB'd
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go." -Dr. Seuss
"Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down"
Nice, I like that one.
I ain't play the hand I was dealt, I changed my cards I prayed to the skies and I changed my stars -Kanye
"The legs feed the wolf gentlemen" -Herb Fuckin' Brooks
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
My very own quotes. They got me through tough times and helped me climb to the top.
"If you would like to fail miserably in life, please accept the status quo. Please be realistic. Please stay within your comfort zone. Please accept second-class behavior. Please be submissive. I can guarantee that you will never reach the top."
"A true opportunist is not interested in the fairness of a system. Because he understands the inherent weakness in every system, which is that everyone of them is designed to benefit one group at the expense of another. And to blindly crusade for fairness across all groups is a waste of resources, a thankless job and a politically stupid move. It is much better to focus on exploiting the weakness within a system rather than trying to fix it."
"Don't judge everyday by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson.
"There are two kinds of people I don't trust - people with initials for a name, and people that don't drink" - me
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"The wise man does first what the fool does last" - Machiavelli. Several interpretations - idiocy or procrastination, take your pick
The lion does not concern himself with the opinions of the sheep.
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