Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you se...
Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.
The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.
When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the...
The simplest explanation usually sounds right and is farmore convincing than any complicated explanation couldhope to be.
Most important, understand that goals are for losers and systems are for winners.
Love? Do you mean love in the way you understand itas a human?Well, not exactly, but basically the same thing. I mean,love is love.A brain surgeon would tell you that a specific part ofthe brain contr...
I’ve explained to a number of people my observations about how exercise, diet, and sleep influence mood. The usual reaction is a blank expression followed by a change of topic. No one wants to believe...
It is a wondrous human characteristic to be able to slip into and out of idiocy many times a day without noticing the change or accidentally killing innocent bystanders in the process.
If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power.
If you give an ant infinite time, it can move a mountain all by itself.
If you can imagine the future being brighter, it lifts your energy and gooses the chemistry in your body that produces a sensation of happiness. If you can’t even imagine an improved future, you won’t...
I pursued a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me.
I also find it helpful to remind myself that every human is a mess on the inside. It’s easy to assume the good-looking and well-spoken person in front of you has it all together and is therefore your...
Here I pause to say I know nothing of Ted Cruz’s record of honesty. I have no idea whether he is better or worse than any other politician. I’m focusing on his physical appearance and Trump’s persuasi...
Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.
A woman needs to be told that you would sacrifice anything for her. A man needs to be told he is being useful. When the man or woman strays from that formula, the other loses trust. When trust is lost...
The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in...
The past exists only in yourmind, he said. Likewise, the future exists only in yourmind because it has not happened.
You might be familiar with a television show that was called The Dog Whisperer. On the show, Cesar Millan, a dog-training expert, helped people get their seemingly insane dogs under control. Cesar’s m...