Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.
The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.
Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.
Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.
Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.
The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.
Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.
Success, in every case, comes from the alchemy of your health, your mind, your positive energy, and the real world situations you persistently improve for yourself.
Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.
Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. 100 years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.
The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.
Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.
This is a cliché, but never listen to anyone who says “You can’t do that”. Those are usually the people who can’t do it. Not you.
Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.
Games are all about taking risks.
What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
I had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.
Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.
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