Instead of spending your time dreaming of your plan’s happy ending, you must work on calculating every possible permutation and pitfall that might emerge in it.

The best way to neutralize our natural impatience is to cultivate a kind of pleasure in pain—like an athlete, you come to enjoy rigorous practice, pushing past your limits, and resisting the easy way out.

'One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil.' - Friedrich Nietzsche

The true sharks in the world don't need my book.

Clip is from my conversation with Jay Shetty

What limits individuals as well as nations is the inability to confront reality, to see things for what they are. As we grow older, we become more rooted in the past. Habit takes over. Something that has worked for us before becomes a doctrine, a shell to protect us from reality.

People with a lot of time on their hands are extremely susceptible to seduction. They have mental space for you to fill.

Many men are intimidated by beauty and prefer to worship it from afar; others are drawn in, but not for the purpose of conversation. The Beauty suffers from isolation.

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.

Take special note of how people respond to stressful situations—often the mask they wear in public falls off in the heat of the moment.

The root cause of all passive aggression is the human fear of direct confrontation—the emotions that a conflict can churn up and the loss of control that ensues.

What people lack in life is not more reality but illusion, fantasy, play.

Find your life's task.

Stay away from toxic people.

From my conversation with Jordan Harbinger

Every day you face battles—that is the reality for all creatures in their struggle to survive. But the greatest battle of all is with yourself—your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end.

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The truth is that everything starts from the top. What determines your failure or success is your style of leadership and the chain of command that you design.

Napoleon advised: Place your iron hand inside a velvet glove.

You don't understand the people around you.

The paranoid and wary are often the easiest to deceive. Win their trust in one area and you have a smoke screen that blinds their view in another, letting you creep up and level them with a devastating blow.

It may be too late to be spoiled by a parent, but it is never too late to make other people spoil you. It is all in your attitude. People are drawn to those who expect a lot out of life, whereas they tend to disrespect those who are fearful and undemanding.