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  North to Paradise: A Memoir Umar, Ousman When we started out , there were forty - six of us . Only six survived . I always ate as much as I could because I knew it might be days before I’d have another meal . I was a twelve - year - old kid living in a no - man’s - land between the port , the cement factory , and the fishing harbor . “ They’ve found trucks in the desert with eighty bodies around them , ” I overheard as I watched them loading the convoys . The smugglers ’ cruel business consisted of promising to bring people across the Sahara , collecting their fees , and then abandoning them in the middle of nowhere . Murder on a massive scale . Abandoned At one point , we found a drinking well for goats : the water was contaminated with their excrement , but we drank it anyway . Considering the things we ate and drank , I don’t know how we never got sick . The difference in temperature between day and night was brutal : we practically melted during the day , when it was over 120 deg

  Enhancing Trader Performance Dan Gable, one of the great competitors in the history of sport. To say that he’s an expert performer is a considerable understatement. As a high school wrestler, he won his state championship three times and was undefeated in 64 consecutive matches. He proceeded to win 117 consecutive matches at Iowa State University and twice won the national championship. He was an Olympic gold medalist, outscoring his opponents 130–1 in his final 21 qualification and Olympic matches. As a wrestling coach for the University of Iowa, his teams went 355–21–5, yielding 45 national champions. In his book "A Season on the Mat," Nolan Zavoral provides a simple assessment of Gable: “Nobody trained harder.” Gable was known to practice so hard that he would literally have to crawl to exit the wrestling room. Often, while crawling, he would find a second wind and continue training. Trading is a performance discipline and trading performance can be cultivated through th

  Meditaciones Marco Aurelio Antonino Augusto El soportar las fatigas y tener pocas necesidades; el trabajo con esfuerzo personal y la abstención de excesivas tareas, y la desfavorable acogida a la calumnia. El no haber dado nunca la impresión de cólera ni de ninguna otra pasión, antes bien, el ser el menos afectado por las pasiones y a la vez el que ama más entrañablemente a los hombres; el elogio, sin estridencias; el saber polifacético, sin alardes. La aversión a criticar; el no reprender con injurias a los que han proferido un barbarismo. No rechazar de este modo sistemáticamente las obligaciones que imponen las relaciones sociales, pretextando excesivas ocupaciones. El dominio de sí mismo y no dejarse arrastrar por nada; el buen ánimo en todas las circunstancias y especialmente en las enfermedades. El cuidado moderado del propio cuerpo, no como quien ama la vida, ni con coquetería ni tampoco negligentemente, sino de manera que, gracias a su cuidado personal, en contadísimas ocasio

  The best executives are made, not born. They absorb information, study their own experiences, learn from their mistakes, and evolve. I had incredible teachers. My parents taught me the values of honesty, common decency, and achievement, and the importance of generosity toward others. My high school track coach, Jack Armstrong, helped me develop a high tolerance for pain and to understand the power of preparation, essential lessons for any entrepreneur. Today it is the world’s largest manager of alternative assets. Conventional assets are cash, stocks, and bonds. The broad category of “alternatives” includes pretty much everything else. We build, buy, fix, and sell companies and real estate. The companies we invest in employ more than 500,000 people, making Blackstone and its portfolio companies one of the largest US-based employers and one of the largest employers anywhere in the world. We find the best hedge fund managers and give them money to invest. We also lend money to compa