In the end, winning is sleeping better. —Jodie Foster
If you want to be tougher mentally, it is simple: Be tougher. Don’t meditate on it. These words of Jocko’s helped one listener—a drug addict—get sober after many failed attempts. The simple logic stru...
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. –Frank Wilczek
If you don’t have cancer and you do a therapeutic fast 1 to 3 times per year, you could purge any precancerous cells that may be living in your body.
If you don’t give young men a good and useful group to belong to, they will create a bad group to belong to. But one way or another, they’re going to create a group, and they’re going to find somethin...
If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. –Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome a...
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.—Omar N. Bradley
If it’s not ready, we’re not going to send it out, and just hope they don’t notice that it’s not that good. We’ll fix it. We’ll do something else, but don’t try to slip by something that you know is b...
If it’s important to you and you want to do it eventually, just do it and correct course along the way.
If I believed this, how would it affect my decisions in the next week? Over the next 6 to 12 months?
I think we need to teach kids two things: 1) how to lead, and 2) how to solve interesting problems. Because the fact is, there are plenty of countries on Earth where there are people who are willing t...
I think it’s an analogy for that choice we all have in life: Are you going to fulfill your potential? Or, are you just going to give into the peer pressure of the moment and become nothing?
I have come to learn that part of the business strategy is to solve the simplest, easiest, and most valuable problem. And actually, in fact, part of doing strategy is to solve the easiest problem, so...
I do not believe in work-life balance. I believe that if you view your work as a calling, it is a labor of love rather than laborious. When your work is a calling, you are not approaching the amount o...
I didn’t survive, I prepared. Nelson Mandela’s answer when Tony asked him, Sir, how did you survive all those years in prison?
I am, and will continue to be, a humble student of you all.
I also figured out that I could use my workouts as a form of meditation because I concentrate so much on the muscle, I have my mind inside the bicep when I do my curls. I have my mind inside the pecto...
Humans Use Only 10% of Their Brains? Not Quite . . . The most complex structure in the entire universe doesn’t have just a vacant parking lot waiting for someone to drive in and start building. It’s a...