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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. —MARK TWAIN
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. —OSCAR WILDE,
jacks on cat heads. 1997 Millionaire time! I create an audiobook called How I Beat the Ivy League, use all my money from three summer jobs to manufacture 500
in 2006, just nine years of denial later. Such is the joy of baseless overconfidence. 1998 After four shot-putters kick a friend’s head in, I quit bouncing, the highest-paying job on campus,
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. —PABLO PICASSO
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. —JOHN F. KENNEDY
Retirement Is Worst-Case-Scenario Insurance.
“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.
if I continue on this track for 5, 10, or 20 years?” 2. Most people will assume this type
his mind. As they paddle back to shore after an awesome session, his clients get ahold of themselves and regain their composure. They set
shut down, and inventory would spoil on the shelves while I’m picking my toes in solitary misery on some cold shore in Ireland. Crying in the rain, I imagine. My
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.
ticket anywhere in the world to anyone
or a doctor, have babies, and raise them to repeat the cycle. If you do manage to ignore the doubters and start your own business, for example, ADD doesn’t disappear. It just takes a different form. When I started BrainQUICKEN
and once through e-mail. So what happened? I lost one customer, but the other corrected course and simply faxed orders, again and again and again. Problem solved, minimum revenue lost. I was immediately 10 times happier. I then identified the common characteristics
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
It’s too big a world to spend most of life in a cubicle.
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
So be bold and don’t worry about what people think. They don’t do it that often anyway.
you can, then mark the ones I should look at with the label “TIM” in Gmail. [Note earlier in this article
San Francisco, and scanned so I can view it online. If
