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We always have two choices: 1. The easy one 2. The right one
It’s easy to do the easy thing. It’s never ever wrong to do the right thing.
You will be rewarded instantly for doing the easy thing. You will be rewarded eventually for doing the right thing.
We aren’t addicted to things. We are addicted to the emotions that these things generate!
It is not the things that are wrong. It is our inability to understand our emotions.
If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.
Risk is better than regret.
Do not choose the person you learn from. Choose what you learn from them.
the way you respond to the world is the way you teach the world how to treat you.
People will help you only when you have helped them understand how they can.
The hardest thing in the world is telling yourself that it’s not hard at all.
What’s hard is convincing your mind that it is not hard. That you can do it.
If you are scared of losing You have already lost!
Instead of worrying about what might happen, anticipate what might happen. Our power to imagine is both a strength and a weakness.
We can build our own prisons through our thoughts, or let go of all bars, break ceilings and imagine the best outcome possible.
Our power to imagine comes to haunt us. Or help us. The one we pick. Is the one we live with.
Do not mistake starting slow as starting small.
As adults, the single biggest hurdle to learning is pride!
those who learn, irrespective of their age, are the ones who continue to grow.
The greatest illusion is that life should be perfect!
The best companies get built by candid conversations,
A meaningful job need not be one that completely consumes your whole life.
It’s important to have your space. It’s super important to not let your job encroach upon your life.
To find meaning in your job is beautiful. Your job being the only meaning of life is scary.
The easiest way to learn from mistakes is to read books. The next option is to commit them yourself.
You can get anything back in life but not time.
Complaining has never ever led someone to a solution.
Complaining amplifies the problem. It justifies why it exists.
If you had to choose just one habit for the rest of your life, let it be of not complaining. And see how effortlessly you reach solutions.
Working out teaches you discipline and patience like few other things do.
You can’t buy a fit body.
It is only going to happen if you show up every day. And be patient.
The most dangerous people are those who run away from change. They are also the most energy sucking.
Don’t ever fool yourself to believe you deserve to be where you are in life.
Gratitude. Not entitlement.
How you treat someone who has nothing to offer defines your value system. Your values don’t help you grow. But in times of shit, they hold you together.
You will get what you seek. Not what you desire. Not what you dream. What you seek. Fervently.
As a founder, if you won’t show up every single day, despite how you are feeling or how the startup is doing or what the press is writing about you or your co-founders not working out or your product failing or your customers shouting, No one is going to do it for you. . . . People would much rather work for a competent asshole than an incompetent nice guy. . . .
At that point, there is only one thing that will help. The stories you tell yourself. Keep reminding yourself of why you became a founder in the first place. You wanted to be happy doing it, feel fulfilled being one, or desired peace from it. Or whatever else it was. Because that is the only thing that matters.
Capability is rarely the question mark in life. It is always the intent.
When people are driven to bring their right intent to the table, they are the first ones to surprise themselves with their capabilities.
Telling someone they are wrong is never going to convince the person. Telling someone they don’t see the point is hypocritical. Telling someone you will never understand is you facing the mirror.
entrepreneurship and building a team is ninety per cent understanding and ten per cent execution. Ninety per cent empathy with ten per cent autocracy.
And hundred per cent patience.
Your work is not only your work. It is the measure of how much trust your manager places in you. Dip by dip. Day by day. One action at a time.
Entrepreneurship is not a profession. It’s a state of mind.
You can have a job and think of building new things, energizing your team and making sure you are helping the business grow. Figure out the right problems to solve. Ask for work beyond your job description. Treat your job like your own business. You do not necessarily need to have a start-up in order to become an entrepreneur. You can start where you are. Move things that need to be moved. Change the status quo for the better. And you are an entrepreneur.
What you have done in the past does not have any relevance to how good you are at solving customer problems.
Who you are and where you came from doesn’t matter. What you do and where you are going, is all that does.
‘I trust you not because you know everything. I trust you because I know that you will do everything in your capacity to find the answer.’ This is what I tell my most capable team members.
