Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.
The Success Formula: Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds of Success
On all the important stuff, we are emotional creatures who make decisions first and rationalize them after the fact.
Managing your personal energy is like managing budgets in a company.
If, as you say, our minds are delusiongenerators, then we’re all like blind and deaf sea captainsshouting orders into the universe and hoping it makes a difference.We have no way of knowing what reall...
Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.
Simplicity is not proof of truth. But since we cannever understand true reality, if two models both explain thesame facts, it is more rational to use the simpler one. It is amatter of convenience.
Sometimes what seems to be a difference in opinions is in fact just a difference in definitions.
Everything he talked about had a kind of logic to it, but so do many things that are nonsense.
Because everything you perceive is a metaphor forsomething your brain is not equipped to fully understand.God is as real as the clothes you are wearing and the chairyou are sitting in. They are all me...
Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
The grand illusion of life is that our minds have the capacity to understand reality. But human minds didn’t evolve to understand reality. We didn’t need that capability. A clear view of reality wasn’...
The best any human can do is to pick a delusion thathelps him get through the day
Skeptics, he said, suffer from the skeptics’ disease—the problem of being right too often.
In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail.
If you think your odds of solving your problem are bad, don’t rule out the possibility that what is really happening is that you are bad at estimating odds.
Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.
But never being wrong is no proof thatthe method of testing is sound for all cases