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To get rich, don’t think about what’s valuable to you. Think about what’s valuable to others.
cliché of the starving artist: creating something that’s valuable to you, but not to others.
The world is full of money. There’s no shortage. So capture the value you create.
Aiming to be rich makes you think bigger, which is more exciting, more fun, and less conventional since most people don’t think big.
The less you buy, the more you’re in control. Forget lifestyle. Forget yourself.
Stay 100% focused on creating value. Everything else is a corrupting distraction.
Nothing destroys money faster than seeking status...
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You’ll work harder to keep your money than you will to make more. As with sex, the fascination fades when you have plenty.
Say no to more stuff. Say yes to more choices.
Money makes problems go away, but amplifies personality traits. Money won’t change you, but it will amplify who you are.
You only need to get rich once. When you win a game, you stop playing.
Every year or two, change your job and move somewhere new. Change the way you eat, look, and talk.
You can make shallow small-talk, or really get to know someone. Choose to connect every time.
Manners are shallow. Honesty is deep.
The more you really connect with people, the more you learn about yourself: what excites you, what drains you, what attracts you, and what intimidates you.
It’s easy to love someone’s best qualities, but it’s work to love their flaws. Don’t try to change someone, or teach them a lesson, unless they ask you to.
Unless you are drops of liquid, one plus one never equals one.
There lie millions of half-written books, ideas never launched, and talents never developed. Most people die with everything still inside of them.
The way to live is to create. Die empty. Get every idea out of your head and into reality.
Don’t wait for inspiration. Inspiration will never make the first move.
It’s better to create something bad than nothing at all. You can improve something bad. You can’t improve nothing.
Creativity is a magic coin. The more you spend, the more you have.
They make you think you’re creative when you’re actually boring. Only creating makes you creative.
Create questions, not answers. Explore whatever excites you most.
If you’re not excited by it, your audience won’t be either.
Most creations are new combinations of existing ideas. Originality just means hiding your sources.
Let the deadline of death drive you. Create until your last breath. Let your last spark of life go into your work. Die empty, so death takes only a corpse.
The winner is usually the one who makes the least mistakes. This is true in investing, extreme skiing, business, flying, and many other fields. Win by not losing.
Bad has more power. Insults affect you more than compliments. Injuries affect you more than back rubs.
Don’t waste a single minute. Life can be long if you use time wisely.
But wasting time brings death quicker. Time is the only thing that can’t be replaced.
Keep your eye on death. Avoid the mistakes that end life. Avoid the negatives that wreck life. Avoid the time-wasting that brings death sooner.
Just make sure that you capture the lessons from each experience. And never make the same mistake twice.
The world doesn’t need more audience. The world needs changing. What’s broken needs fixing. What’s OK needs improving. What’s harmful needs destroying.
Instead of fixing, destroy what was there and replace it with something better.
Don’t worship your heroes. Surpass them.
Creativity comes from shaking things up. People that were left out of the old game can get in early on the new game.
Physical upset: to knock something over. Emotional upset: to be disturbed. Physically unstable: likely to fall.
Virtue is in the balance between extremes. Between the insecure and the egomaniac: confidence. Between the uptight and the clown: grace. Between the coward and the daredevil: courage. Between selfishness and sacrifice: generosity.
Imagine the different aspects of your life as the spokes in a wheel: health, wealth, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, or however you divide it.
Schedule every hour of your day. Distraction steals what’s not locked down.
