Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it’s a total profound...
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.—Seneca the Younger
Options - the ability to choose - is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more mo...
One wrong person in your circle can destroy your whole future.
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. —JOHN F. KENNEDY
On Fixing Physical Weaknesses LAIRD: All you flexible people should go bang some iron, and all you big weight lifters should go do some yoga. . . . We always gravitate toward our strengths because we...
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. –Fred Rogers
Of the many, many excuses people use to rationalize why they can’t do something, the excuse I am too busy is not only the most inauthentic, it is also the laziest. I
Nuestro objetivo no es crear un negocio lo más grande posible, sino un negocio que nos moleste lo menos posible.
Now I release an episode of the Waking Up podcast more or less every week.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. —Socrates
No tiene ningún sentido que a las niñas se les diga que son más frágiles
No te preocupes por cuál será tu trabajo… Haz cosas que te interesen y, si las haces bien de verdad, encontrarás la manera de templarlas con una buena oportunidad de negocio».
No quieres ser la decimosegunda empresa de paneles solares de la última década. Y no quieres ser la enésima empresa de ninguna tendencia en particular. Así
Named must your fear be before banish it you can. –Yoda Powerful Jedi master
My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It’s the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It’s the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the n...
My maxim comes from Samuel Beckett, a personal hero of mine: ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impos...
Most-gifted or recommended books? Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl The Fourth Turning by William Strauss (Also, Generations by William Strauss, which was gifted to Tony by Bill Clinton) Minds...
Most see excellence as some grand aspiration. Wrong. Dead wrong. My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It’s the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It’s the q...
Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30–40 years of tolerating the mediocre.