Showing posts with label Wisdom Bites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wisdom Bites. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: Keeping With Year End Traditions

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  "What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it."               -Rudyard Kip...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: Keeping With Year End Traditions

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    "Poor is he who works with negligent hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothin...
Monday, December 29, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: Keeping With Year End Traditions

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"To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power."     - Joe Macdonald
Friday, December 26, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: Keeping With Year End Traditions

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  "Goodness is the only investment that never fails."                              - Henry David Thoreau  
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: Keeping With Year End Traditions

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  "Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in His sight is w...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: Keeping With Year End Traditions

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  "The true test of civilization is not the census, not the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country tur...
Monday, December 22, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: Keeping With Year End Traditions

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  "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve...
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Friday, December 19, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: The one about the six foot man

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(Expanded from April 9, 2025) In April, volatility reminded us of Howard Marks’ most memorable metaphor: the six-foot man who drowned crossi...
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Thursday, December 18, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: The one where doing nothing is the hardest work

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  (Expanded from January 13, 2025) We opened 2025 with Nick Sleep and Qais Zakaria’s Nomad Investment Partnership—proof that inactivity, whe...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: The One About The Pope

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(Expanded from May 12, 2025) Somewhere between earnings season and FOMC minutes, we found ourselves reading papal encyclicals. Stay with me....
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: The one with the falcon and the donut

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(Expanded from May 5, 2025) In May, we wandered briefly away from charts and into something far more revealing: a CEO driving his own produc...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: The One With The Bird Poop

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(Expanded from February 7, 2025) Welcome back to the digital saloon, where we trade fleeting forecasts for the only currency that matters: r...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: The Atlas We Carry

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  Cloud Atlas is a time-looping ledger of human cause and consequence: every exploitation returns as its own invoice. Capitalism’s glory is...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: When Leverage Turns Human

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  Mitchell’s corpocracy is not built by villains; it is built by efficient people who forgot why efficiency exists . Leverage—the financial ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Edward Quince's Wisdom Bites: Ambition Without Purpose

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Mitchell’s worlds are full of people trapped in upward trajectories with no upward meaning. So are ours. We trade entire decades for: status...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Edwin Quince's Wisdom Bites: The Cost of Disposability

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  In Cloud Atlas , Sonmi-451 is manufactured for service, spent for utility, and discarded without mourning. Mitchell didn’t invent that sys...