15 Deep Philosophy Quotes From “Albert Einstein "

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1. "Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore."

- Albert Einstein
2. "The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil,

but by those who watch them without doing anything."

- Albert Einstein
3. "Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein
4. "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

- Albert Einstein
5. "Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions."

- Albert Einstein
6. "A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it's built for."

- Albert Einstein
7. “Life is like riding a bicycle.

To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

- Albert Einstein
8. “What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”

- Albert Einstein
9. “If you want to live a happy life,

Tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

- Albert Einstein
10. "Everybody is a genius.

But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

- Albert Einstein
11. "Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance, and self-criticism."

- Albert Einstein
12. “A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”

- Albert Einstein
13. "Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things:

Something you did or something you didn't do."

- Albert Einstein
14. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein
15. “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

- Albert Einstein
You can't improve if you don't know what you're doing wrong.

• Make time for stillness
• Master over your mind
• Practice decision-making skills

Work on your mental models. Practice critical thinking

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1/“What would need to be true for you to….X”

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A thread, co-written by @deanmbrody:


2/ First, “X” could be lots of things. Examples: What would need to be true for you to

- “Feel it's in our best interest for me to be CMO"
- “Feel that we’re in a good place as a company”
- “Feel that we’re on the same page”
- “Feel that we both got what we wanted from this deal

3/ Normally, we aren’t that direct. Example from startup/VC land:

Founders leave VC meetings thinking that every VC will invest, but they rarely do.

Worse over, the founders don’t know what they need to do in order to be fundable.

4/ So why should you ask the magic Q?

To get clarity.

You want to know where you stand, and what it takes to get what you want in a way that also gets them what they want.

It also holds them (mentally) accountable once the thing they need becomes true.

5/ Staying in the context of soliciting investors, the question is “what would need to be true for you to want to invest (or partner with us on this journey, etc)?”

Multiple responses to this question are likely to deliver a positive result.