Rizvi Traverse Quotes

#1. What we eat is a poem.

Anthony Doerr

#2. Things look one way and then they look another way.

Art Hochberg

#3. Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.

Anne Tyler

#4. You must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?

Kamala Markandaya

#5. If you have a dream, first build a team.

Vinita Kinra

#6. I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

Brie Larson

#7. I have learned that chances don't always come to you; sometimes you have to create your own.

Abeer Allan

#8. So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

John Gardner

#9. If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

Warren Buffett

#10. Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.

Bruce Kent

#11. We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.

Alain De Botton

#12. The strong times, the weak times
they all come in waves. Trust me, none of us has it together.

Timothy James Beck