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Sometimes it’s good to feel like a kid
again, even at age 75.
Wayne said to me, “The number one regret of the dying is ‘I wish I had the
courage to live the life I wanted rather than doing what others wanted of me.’” It’s hard living the life you want. It requires
determination and strength and wisdom and fearlessness. And those are...
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“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”
“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”
“It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.”
“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”
always think this is the magic equation: persistence + love = abundance. You have to love something enough to persist. You have to persist enough to deepen your love. This is true for a career. True for a relationship. But only true for YOU and not what someone tells you to do.
“You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better,
not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.”
“[My biggest mistake is probably] weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.”
I recently watched a company go from $1 billion in revenues to zero when a founder stole $90 million from the company. Integrity, humility, and doing your best are by far the most important considerations when evaluating whether to work for someone.
14.“Life is too short for long-term grudges.”
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You can only be good at so many things. But don’t limit yourself too much either. Always be looking for new opportunities to improve incrementally.
A pyramid is built by first building a solid base. No matter what I do now, I always make sure I understand all the pieces that make up the base.
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Because inside of every problem is the seed of a “difficult gratitude problem” and it always improves your life to solve those problems.
The best professionals in the business admit they know nothing.
THE TONY ROBBINS METHOD In the interview I said, “OK, I figured it out. You use the Tony Robbins method.” Which I defined as: *At first you don’t know anything.
You find five people who are the experts in the world. *You extensively interview them. *You figure out the simplest things they have in common with each other. *You do that simple thing over and over and over and over (repetition).
And that’s how you...
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He said the way he did it was by being the servant of many. By constantly adding value to others, value comes back to you. It becomes the most natural thing. Tony Robbins has his critics I am sure.
But it’s by helping others and accepting help that we grow as a society. Sometimes people think “choosing myself” is a selfish concept. But it’s the only way you build the strength to help others. It’s the only way you surrender, not to some man-made force, but a force
inside yourself that is perhaps the most powerful there is.
At the very least, when I wake up I try to remember to ask: who can I help today?
Because I’m a superhero and this is my secret identity.
If you ask every day, “How did I help people today?” then you will have more traffic and money than you could have imagined.
“It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.” What I love about this quote is that he combines big problems with small groups.
“What is the one-sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!”
17.“You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we’ve come up with doing that is through companies.”
Google is great. But it can be better. Having this mindset always forces you to push beyond the comfort zone. Once they changed the way typists viewed their skills (by recreating the
feeling of “beginner’s mind”), the typists continued to get faster.
“We have a mantra: don’t be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.”
The point is: values before money.
Mimi said, “If you are going to put out a video once a week, put it out once a week. Put it out the same day each week if you can. Don’t do once a month. Don’t do random. Your audience starts to anticipate and look forward to your shows and knows when to expect them.”
“If everyone would just help ONE person today then the world will be a better place tomorrow.”
Even if you aren’t an expert, give yourself permission to be a producer. Produce!
said, “Every day I follow my own advice. I try to be healthy. I spend time with friends. I’m creative every day. And I look at the most difficult part of my situation every day and find things to be grateful for.
ALL SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE started off knowing nothing.
“Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.”
“Start making suggestions for how to improve your workplace. Don’t be a shrinking violet, quietly getting your job done adequately. Be bold, and the sky is the limit.”
“Age isn’t as important so long as you are surrounded by people you love, doing things you passionately believe in.”
It’s ONLY when you find the people you love that you can create and flourish. Henry Ford was 45 when he started his third car company and created the assembly line. He did this once he eliminated all the people who tried to control him at prior companies.
Colonel Sanders was 65 when he started KFC. Laura Ingalls Wilder was 65 when she wrote her first book. The book launched the Little House on the Prairie series. This was after she had been totally wiped out in the Great Depression and left with nothing but she started to surround herself with people who encouraged her and pushed her to pursue writing to make ends meet.
5.“To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.”
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