Great Quotes, Vol. 20: Build Yourself a Great Story

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this 20th installment of one of our longest-running series, David shares five fresh quotes from the likes of Sir Philip Sidney, Danny Meyer, Raj Sisodia, Confucius, and Jeff Bezos. Across these stirring lines, we explore themes of authentic self-expression, continuous reinvention, the power of seeing people as wellsprings of creativity, and the urgency that comes from recognizing we only have one life. If you’re ready to think deeper, act bolder, and craft a richer story for yourself, this episode offers both inspiration and challenge—Rule Breaker style.

Host: David Gardner

Producer: Desirée Jones

Companies Mentioned: AMZN, SHAK

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0:00.0	Recurring series are a staple of Rule Breaker Investing, inspired by David Letterman's top 10 lists and Saturday Night Lives Weekend updates.
0:10.5	One of our originals is great quotes this week hitting a big round number, volume 20.
0:16.1	But we never do repeats.
0:17.4	These five quotes are of course all brand new designed to help you think deeper,
0:22.0	act better, and or enjoy life more. So let's get smarter, happier, and richer, shall we,
0:28.4	for a little while anyway, with one of our OG series only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
0:36.1	It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.
0:44.3	And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
0:46.4	That's right.
0:46.9	That is the sound of rules being broken, maybe a window too.
0:51.2	Welcome back.
0:52.3	Happy New Year.
0:53.2	I hope I'm not the first to say that to you. But if I am,
0:56.8	it's a new year. Welcome. It's a whole new ballgame, although we're going to keep playing
1:01.1	the game the same way we've done so before. What do winners do? Well, we try to keep on winning.
1:07.2	So let's get right into this week's great quotes, volume 20. I have five quotes
1:12.9	queued up, investing, business, and life, each of which I hope will educate, amuse, and enrich.
1:18.1	Let's get started with quote number one. Quote number one is one of my favorite full quotes of
1:24.5	all. It's from Sir Philip Sidney, the Elizabethan courtier, soldier, and poet,
1:31.0	who died young at the age of 31. He got hit by a bullet in the Netherlands in 1586 and died
1:39.0	at the age of 31. His works include a sonnet sequence, Astrophel and Stella. That's where my quote comes from.
1:45.6	I read a little bit of that in my undergrad years at the University of North Carolina
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