And what is up to us? Our emotions Our judgments Our creativity Our attitude Our perspective Our desires Our decisions Our determination.
Andrew Carnegie famously put it. There’s nothing shameful about sweeping. It’s just another opportunity to excel—and to learn. But you, you’re so busy thinking about the future, you don’t take any pri...
Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, outlined when he described what happens to businesses in tumultuous times: Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are impr...
Apply yourself to thinking through difficulties—
Are you angry when someone’s armpits stink or when their breath is bad? What would be the point? Having such a mouth and such armpits, there’s going to be a smell emanating. You say, they must have se...
As Ben Franklin’s proverb put it: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
As Marc Andreessen—the entrepreneur behind Netscape, Opsware, and Ning who, in addition to running a major venture capital fund, happens to be on the board of directors for Facebook, eBay, and HP—expl...
As a result, we carry all kinds of biological baggage.
As a young basketball player, Bill Bradley would remind himself, When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
As the philosopher and writer Paul Valéry explained in 1938, A poet’s function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others. That is, h...
Atreus: Who would reject the flood of fortune’s gifts? Thyestes: Anyone who has experienced how easily they flow back. —SENECA, THYESTES, 536
Attach yourself to people and organizations who are already successful and subsume your identity into theirs and move both forward simultaneously.
August 21st DON’T BE MISERABLE IN ADVANCE It’s ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future and miserable in advance of misery, engulfed by anxiety that the things it desires might remain its o...
BE RUTHLESS TO THE THINGS THAT DON’T MATTER How many have laid waste to your life when you weren’t aware of what you were losing, how much was wasted in pointless grief, foolish joy, greedy desire, an...
Because of the way that blogging is structured—from the way bloggers are paid by the pageview to the way blog posts must be written to catch the reader’s attention—this was all very easy to do. The sy...
Before he became the most brilliant and famous man in the ad business, David Ogilvy sold ovens door-to-door. Because of that, he never forgot that advertising is just a slightly more scalable form of...
Being trapped is just a position, not a fate. You get out of it by addressing and eliminating each part of that position through small, deliberate actions—not by trying (and failing) to push it away w...
Believe me, it’s better to produce the balance-sheet of your own life than that of the grain market. —SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 18.3b T
Ben Horowitz: There is no silver bullet. . . . No, we’re going to have to use a lot of lead bullets.
Blessings and burdens are not mutually exclusive. It’s a lot more complicated.
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