22 Stoic Quotes About Work, Business, Learning And Investing

1. "The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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2. "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." (Epictetus) Click to tweet

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3. "Lean into the discomfort of the work." (Brené Brown) Click to tweet

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4. "You are not tied to a particular position; your loyalty is not to a career or company." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

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5. "Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Click to tweet

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6. "A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant." (Posidonius) Click to tweet

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7. "It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

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8. "You need patience, discipline, and an agility to take losses and adversity without going crazy." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

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9. "It’s not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

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10. "Winning is not about talent, being smart, taking shortcuts. It’s about finding the right thing to do, and doing it." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet

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11. "What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him." (Viktor E. Frankl) Click to tweet

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12. "Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up with you, and the fall will be painful." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

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13. "Discomfort is your friend. It doesn’t matter if you’re sick, if you have kids… if you’re a pro, you go to work." (Joe Rogan) Click to tweet

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14. "Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world." (Charlie Munger) Click to tweet

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15. "People tend to avoid the important work they fear by doing unimportant work that wears them out. They suppress anxiety with exhaustion, but they do not address the source of the problem."Click to tweet

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16. "Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength." (Ryan Holiday) Click to tweet

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17. "If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures." (Musonius Rufus) Click to tweet

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18. "If you’re more passionate about founding a business than the business itself, you can fall into a ten year trap. Better to stay emotionally unattached and select the best opportunity that arises. Applies to relationships too." (Naval Ravikant) Click to tweet

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19. "Finding information is easier than ever. Filtering information is harder than ever. We are bombarded with irrelevant data and unsolicited stimulation. Choosing what to ignore is as important as choosing what to pay attention to."Click to tweet

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20. "The mind should not be kept continuously at the same pitch of concentration, but given amusing diversions… our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after a rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigor, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers." (Seneca) Click to tweet

21. "Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down." (Robert Greene) Click to tweet

22. "If it is time to rest, rest completely. A good rest rejuvenates you so that you may do quality work. If it is time to work, work with complete focus. Time spent working earnestly earns you a well deserved rest. Don’t mix work and rest; this compromises the quality of both."Click to tweet