Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked...
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart al...
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Losers have goals. Winners have systems.
It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.
We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them later....Your illusion of being a rational person is supported by th...
The only risk of failure is promotion.
If you don’t drink coffee, you should think about two to four cups a day. It can make you more alert, happier, and more productive. It might even make you live longer. Coffee can also make you more li...
A goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don't sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do...
The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever...
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.
I’ve long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.
If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I rec...
The best things in life are silly.
If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.