The strategic goal was the same: to reach people in an effective, scalable, and data-driven way.
The only thing you truly possess is your ability to make choices (and to use reason and judgment when doing so).
The brilliant strategist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart came to a stunning conclusion: In only 6 of the 280 campaigns was the decisive victory a result of a direct attack on the enemy’s main army. O...
The Stoic maxim: sustine et abstine. Bear and forbear. Acknowledge the pain but trod onward in your task.
Raw growth is great, but at the end of the day, we’re running businesses here. We want to turn stats into dollars.
It’s really just taking action—whether that’s approaching someone you’re intimidated by or deciding to finally crack a book on a subject you need to learn.
Is the sense of our own path and how to stay on it without getting distracted by all the others that intersect it. In other words, it’s not about beating the other guy. It’s not about having more than...
Inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.
Exert only calculated force where it will be effective, rather than straining and struggling with pointless attrition tactics.
Desapego es una especie de antídoto natural contra el ego. Es fácil sentirse emocionalmente comprometido y enamorado del trabajo propio. Todos los narcisistas pueden hacerlo. Lo raro no es el talento...
Accomplishing the most that you’re capable of in what you choose.
You’ve got your mission, whatever it is. To accomplish it, like the rest of us you’re in the pinch between the way you wish things were and the way they actually are (which always seem to be a disaste...
You’re becoming who you are going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.
You’ll have far better luck toughening yourself up than you ever will trying to take the teeth out of a world that is—at best—indifferent to your existence.
You’ll have far better luck toughening yourself up than you ever will trying to take the teeth out of a world that is—at best—indifferent to your existence. Whether we were born weak like Roosevelt or...
Your principles can’t be extinguished unless you snuff out the thoughts that feed them, for it’s continually in your power to reignite new ones…. It’s possible to start living again! See things anew a...
You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings.
You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings. Or, like Rockefeller, choose not to.
You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible—and no one can keep you from this. But there will be some external obstacle! Perhaps, but...
You know you’re not the only one who has to accept things you don’t necessarily like, right? It’s part of the human condition. If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them i...