Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
Culture is a simplification and a lie. It’s the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.
Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.
My favorite holding period is forever.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Success comes in cans, failure comes in can’ts.
Smart work pays best. Trust it.
Don’t LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life.
Leadership is not a title. It’s a behavior. LIVE it.
If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.