THE HILLSBERG REPORT

“A cat that dreams of becoming a lion must lose its appetite for rats”

- African Proverb

A monk once said: “Imagine being bitten by a snake, and instead of focusing on healing from the poison, you chase the snake to understand why it bit you and to prove that you didn't deserve it”

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“If you choose two rabbits, you will not catch either one”

- Attributed to Anton Chekhov

“Battle not with monsters
lest you become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

- Voltaire

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”

- Steve Jobs

“What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.”

- Attributed to Carl Jung

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

- Thomas Edison

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”

- Marcus Aurelius

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”

- Carl Jung

“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.”

- Unknown

“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity”

- Bruce Lee

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

“When everyone can build everything with AI, the scarcity shifts. Execution is no longer the bottleneck — taste, judgment, and originality are. And that’s why I believe foundational human skills are becoming the new currency.”

- David Hoang

“A world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth.”

- Friedrich Hayek

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

- Seneca

“What are you most afraid of losing, when nothing in the world actually belongs to you?”

- Attributed to Marcus Aurelius

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”

- Sun Tzu

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it”

- Alan Kay

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

- Winston Churchill

“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”

- Thomas Jefferson (attributed)

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

- T.S. Eliot

“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.”

- John Wayne

“A man on a thousand-mile walk has to forget his ultimate goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”

- Leo Tolstoy

“Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

- Lao Tzu

“We must all either wear out or rust out - every one of us. My choice is to wear out.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“Ships are safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”

- John A. Shedd

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

- Confucius

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

- Lewis Carroll

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

- Henry David Thoreau

“You become what you give your attention to.”

- Epictetus

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

- Muriel Strode

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

- Steve Jobs

“I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“The future is already here - it’s just not evenly distributed.”

- William Gibson

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.”

- William Butler Yeats

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

- Ernest Hemingway

“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

- Samuel Johnson

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”

- Jimi Hendrix

“Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

- Paul Brandt

“A crooked tree lives its own life, but a straight tree is turned into wood.”

- Attributed to Zhuangzi

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”

- Epictetus

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

- Maya Angelou

“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”

- Proverb

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”

- Confucius

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

- Socrates

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”

- Matsuo Bashō