Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Five Thought-Provoking Quotes from Twitter 2-10-25
Mon, 10 Feb 2025
In this episode, Scott Becker shares five compelling quotes from Twitter that offer insights on investing, time management, mental resilience, fitness, and business relationships.
Chapter 1: What is the focus of today's episode?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. So today I'm going to do something different. You know, I've become obsessed a little bit with following Twitter and how they gamified it. And, you know, they gamify it so you can constantly check how many impressions you've had, how many of this you had, how many of that you had.
And it's, again, it's like a video game for adults or for kids. And fascinating and sort of stupid. The payoff is you get a certain amount of impressions, a certain amount of followers, and then you're eligible to get some cash sharing. And the cash sharing is, I'm sure, going to be irrelevant to one's life unless you're like crazily, crazily successful on it.
But the one thing I do love about it is it forces me to look at different quotes, different ideas. And so I'm going to give you five ideas that I saw at Twitter this morning that I just absolutely love. So these are five ideas from Twitter. You'll hear this. This will be released on February 11th. Please text Scott Becker 773-766-5322.
Chapter 2: What insights can we gain from Twitter quotes?
I'm going to try and give credit to the person who wrote the tweet and the original quote they're quoting. So the first one is a quote from Walter Schloss. He's a famous investor. You never really know a stock until you own it. This is from a person or an accountant named Value Theory. And I think this is the truest of statements.
Every time you invest in something, you think you know it, you think you understand it. Once you've actually invested in it, you have a much greater sense of how it goes up and down as you watch it and follow it. You're just clued in a different way. So I love this concept. You never really know a stock until you own it. I think that's right on.
The next quote we're following this morning is from one of these famous Twitterites, Justin Welsh. And Justin has got a great following on Twitter. He's put the whole newsletter business. I don't know what's real and what's Memorex, but I absolutely love this quote from him. I've never regretted it.
Chapter 3: What does Walter Schloss say about investing?
Ending a meeting early, saying no to a quick call, taking Friday afternoon off, locking my calendar for lunch, making time for a midday workout. Protect your time like it's your most valuable asset because it is. So I absolutely love that quote, too, from Justin Wells. That's the second great quote. that I saw on Twitter this morning. I think that's right on.
The third one I loved is somebody quoting Friedrich Nietzsche. And I think Nietzsche's got a complicated past, but this quote is so right. When we are tired, we are taxed by ideas we conquered long ago. So there are so many ideas, impulsive thoughts that hit us every day. I know this from experience on the golf course for sure, picking up the wrong club when I'm tired and doing an impulsive shop.
In tennis, putting the ball up in the air when I just put it at somebody's feet just because I'm tired and not thinking and not turned on and so forth. But it's true in so many different things. So when we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. Again, absolutely brilliant. The fourth thought I love today is from a guy, Brian Johnson, who regularly quotes on
fitness issues plan out this morning how you're going to vigorously exercise at least three times this week and i think maybe that should be five but but i love the concept of being clear about that as a goal to map out exactly what you're going to try and do at least three times a week for exercise and the more clarity you put in your schedule the better off you are the fifth tweet i love today and again i i repost a bunch of these just because i'm addicted to this game on twitter
Chapter 4: How can we better manage our time according to Justin Welsh?
And don't take offense to this if you're a bank or a stripper. Either one, don't take offense. But the comment from a Jason Chaliff is, Banking relationships are similar to stripper relationships. No matter what they tell you, it's all transactional. You know, we all know the buddy that fell in love with the stripper. Excuse me. I'm a much older person now, but I knew some of those in my 30s.
Fall in love with the stripper and find the stripper in the water, loves them after they stop paying. And this guy's concept, Jason J. Love, agree with it or not. Banking relationships are similar to stripper relationships. I got a kick out of that. No matter what they tell you, they are transactional relationships. Again, these are five quotes this morning, tweets this morning.
I think you still call them tweets from Twitter. I love them. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. If you have a great quote to share, Please feel free to send it to me, Scott Becker, 773-766-5322, or one of the email addresses, sbecker at beckerstrategygroup.com. And we'd love to have your quotes and thoughts. Those are five of them from this morning.
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