In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices. – EPICTETUS.
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.
Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?
Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation – without the pestilence of panic or fear.
There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.
Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune – really anything, everything – to their advantage.
Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
What I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reason – because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.
Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
Great times are great softeners.
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.