“The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the proper government authorities will not succeed, in my judgment, in checking the progress of the movement. But if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind, for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth.” IfsMenTryingGovernmentTodayGrowthInterestNaturalWealthBusinessProgressMovementHe ManWindSucceedAuthorityJudgmentViolentReformExcessSteadyRegulationProvokingReapAccompanyWhirlwind Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.” MenGrowthOpinionJudgmentPrejudiceThirtySixtyModifying Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.” PeopleLifeRealGrowthPerspectiveIntegrityJudgmentAskingPersonal GrowthInvestingDespiseUnproductiveUnethical Author:Ray Dalio
“Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities.” EnergyGrowthEffortRiskEconomicAmountTaxesJudgmentInvestmentFinancialHeavyDragLoadIncentivesRisk-takingTax System Author:John F. Kennedy
“For me, one of the highlights of being in the private equity world is that you need to learn a lot and very quickly about different businesses. So it's always a continuing learning experience where you can apply what you know, of course, by way of judgment and by way of numerical analysis. You're always investing in new businesses, which is a learning experience in itself. I think that is a wonderful thing and I think it makes for intellectual challenge and for continued personal growth. That, for me, is the highlight of this job.” ThinkingWorldDifferentGrowthChallengesWonderfulJudgmentIntellectualPersonal GrowthEquityLearning ExperienceNew Business Author:David Bonderman