Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you’ve got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that’s the way we filter out buying opportunities.
If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we’d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.
We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.
The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.
Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking.
What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.
There’s an opportunity cost to everything.
Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.
If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
The biggest risk of all is not taking one.
Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.
The fear of making a decision is the result of fearing to make a mistake – the truth is, the fear of mistakes has a greater impact on you than making the mistakes.
Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.
You can’t get different results by doing things the same way.
If it isn’t a clear yes, then it’s a clear no.
Discipline is a choice. It’s simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.
Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences.
Prioritize your problems and take care of them one at a time, the highest priority first. Don’t try to do everything at once or you won’t be successful. A leader who tries to take on too many problems simultaneously will likely fail at them all.
You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.