Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.
Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.
I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
I live for myself and answer to nobody.
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
I have an ego the size of a small planet.
Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there’s only one of me.
If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso.
Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.
Don’t take life too seriously and have fun. Don’t waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself – and there isn’t one.
You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you’re the best and that you’ll win every time.
A man asked Lord Buddha “I want happiness.” Lord Buddha said – first remove “I” that’s ego. Then remove “Want” that’s desire. See now you are left with only “Happiness”.
Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine.
My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.