If you had a heart attack and had to work two hours per day, what would you do?
If you go out there and start making noise and making sales, people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up...
If you find yourself saying, But I’m making so much money about a job or project, pay attention. But I’m making so much money, or But I’m making good money is a warning sign that you’re probably not o...
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly. –Colonel David Hackworth
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. –Frank Wilczek American theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner
If you don’t have 20 minutes to delve into yourself through meditation, then that means you really need 2 hours.
If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? Discipline equals freedom. Everyone wants freedom. We want to be physically free and mentally free. We w...
If something offends you, look inward. . . . That’s a sign that there’s something there.
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment—now and not later.
I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
I used to resent obstacles along the path, thinking, If only that hadn’t happened life would be so good. Then I suddenly realized, life is the obstacles. There is no underlying path. Our role here is...
I now often ask myself, Is this really a problem I need to think my way out of? Or is it possible I just need to fix my biochemistry? I’ve wasted a lot of time journaling on problems when I just neede...
I have a good friend, let’s call him Slim Berriss, who’s devised a schedule for himself that combines practical microdosing and pre-planned 1- to 2-day treks into deeper territory. For him, this blend...
I hadn’t reached my limit; I’d reached the limit of my business model at the time. It wasn’t the driver, it was the vehicle.
I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. –Herbert Bayard Swope
I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. —HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, American editor and journalist; first recipient...
I believe that success can be measured in the number of uncomfortable conversations you’re willing to have.
I ask them, ‘How will you disrupt yourself, and how are you trying to disrupt yourself? If you’re not, you’re in for a real surprise.’ Find the smartest 20-somethings in your company. I don’t care if...
I am a big believer that if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier.
How is it different and why should I buy it? ONE sentence or phrase, folks. Apple did an excellent job of this with the iPod. Instead of using the usual industry jargon with GB, bandwidth, and so fort...