One of my favorite quotes is by Ralph Waldo Emerson: To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children . . . to leave the world a bit better . . . to know...
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. —BRUCE LEE
No one owes you anything.
No newspapers, magazines, audiobooks, or nonmusic radio. Music is permitted at all times. No news websites whatsoever (cnn.com, drudgereport.com, msn.com,10 etc.). No television at all, except for one...
Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for realistic goals, para...
My original intention with The 4-Hour Workweek (4HWW), The 4-Hour Body (4HB), and The 4-Hour Chef (4HC) was to create a trilogy themed after Ben Franklin’s famous quote: Early to bed and early to rise...
My answer is: Be clear that your ladder is leaning against the right building.
Most who avoid quitting their jobs entertain the thought that their course will improve with time or increases in income. This seems valid and is a tempting hallucination when a job is boring or unins...
Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn’t at least...
Morning pages don’t need to solve your problems. They simply need to get them out of your head, where they’ll otherwise bounce around all day like a bullet ricocheting inside your skull. Could bitchin...
Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for e...
Los libros no están para mostrar lo inteligente y cultivado que eres.
Los libros están para mostrar tu corazón, para mostrar tu alma, y para decirle a cada uno de tus seguidores, de tus lectores: No estás solo.»
Life is a full-contact sport, especially on the Internet. If you’re going to step into the arena, bloody noses and a lot of scrapes are par for the course.
Leg press × 20 reps Leg extension × 20 reps Squats × 20 reps (increase weight 20 lbs once you hit 20, then work back up to 20) (Two-minute rest) Leg curl × 12 reps Calf raises 3 × 15 Behind-neck pull-...
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. —Pierre-Marc-Gaston
I’ve even been known to go to bed while my guests are still partying.
I’d helped kick caffeine withdrawal the week before. I’d given him an l-tyrosine cocktail and,
It’s not enough to use information for something—it needs to be immediate and important.
It’s always the hard part that creates value. You are more powerful than you think you are. Act accordingly.