The imperative is clear: stop sitting on your hands and start getting them dirty.
The good things in life cost what they cost. The unnecessary things are not worth it at any price. The key is being aware of the difference.
The end goal of every growth hacker is to build a self-perpetuating marketing machine that reaches millions by itself.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.61
Shaking off the bad stuff as it happens and soldiering on—staring straight ahead as though nothing has happened.
Remember: even what we get for free has a cost, if only in what we pay to store it—in our garages and in our minds.
Only you know the race you’re running.
Only is better than best.
Marcus Aurelius had a version of this exercise where he’d describe glamorous or expensive things without their euphemisms—roasted meat is a dead animal and vintage wine is old, fermented grapes. The a...
Life speeds on the bold and favors the brave.
Letters used to be signed Deo volente—God willing. Because who knew what would happen?
Knowing that life is a marathon and not a sprint is important. Conserve your energy. Understand that each battle is only one of many and that you can use it to make the next one easier. More important...
Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your free...
It’s one thing to not be overwhelmed by obstacles, or discouraged or upset by them. This is something that few are able to do. But after you have controlled your emotions, and you can see objectively...
It is quite impossible to unite happiness with a yearning for what we don’t have. Happiness has all that it wants, and resembling the well-fed, there shouldn’t be hunger or thirst. —EPICTETUS, DISCOUR...
If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them insane. Yet
How beautifully Plato put it. Whenever you want to talk about people, it’s best to take a bird’s-eye view and see everything all at once—of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces, births and...
Hate defers blame. It makes someone else responsible.
Great entrepreneurs are never out of the game for long. They slip many times, but they don't fall.
Great commanders look for decision points. For it is bursts of energy directed at decisive points that break things wide open. They