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“There are two occasions when complaining is least appreciated in the world: (1) Whenever you tell someone else that you are tired. (2) Whenever you tell someone else that you don’t feel well. If you are tired, you can exercise several options, but complaining to even one poor soul, let alone a loved one, is abusing that person. And it won’t make you less tired. The same kind of logic applies to your “not feeling well.”
― Wayne W. Dyer, Your Erroneous Zones

“This book is divided into three parts. The first section focuses on how habits emerge within individual lives. It explores the neurology of habit formation, how to build new habits and change old ones, and the methods, for instance, that one ad man used to push toothbrushing from an obscure practice into a national obsession. It shows how Procter & Gamble turned a spray named Febreze into a billion-dollar business by taking advantage of consumers’ habitual urges, how Alcoholics Anonymous reforms lives by attacking habits at the core of addiction, and how coach Tony Dungy reversed the fortunes of the worst team in the National Football League by focusing on his players’ automatic reactions to subtle on-field cues.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

“Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

“You Can’t Extinguish a Bad Habit, You Can Only Change It.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

“If you focus on changing or cultivating keystone habits, you can cause widespread shifts. However, identifying keystone habits is tricky. To find them, you have to know where to look. Detecting keystone habits means searching out certain characteristics. Keystone habits offer what is known within academic literature as “small wins.” They help other habits to flourish by creating new structures, and they establish cultures where change becomes contagious. But as O’Neill and countless others have found, crossing the gap between understanding those principles and using them requires a bit of ingenuity.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

“Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

“if you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Monopolists, by contrast, disguise their monopoly by framing their market as the union of several large markets:”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor’s at the stake.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Technology companies follow the opposite trajectory. They often lose money for the first few years: it takes time to build valuable things, and that means delayed revenue. Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“As a good rule of thumb, proprietary technology must be at least 10 times better than its closest substitute in some important dimension to lead to a real monopolistic advantage.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“The perfect target market for a startup is a small group of particular people concentrated together and served by few or no competitors.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don’t disrupt: avoid competition as much as possible.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“1. Goals that can be satisfied with minimal effort; 2. Goals that can be satisfied with serious effort; and 3. Goals that cannot be satisfied, no matter how much effort one makes.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“defining roles reduced conflict. Most fights inside a company happen when colleagues compete for the same responsibilities. Startups face an especially high risk of this since job roles are fluid at the early stages.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit—got us to the truth a lot faster.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Epidemics are a function of the people who transmit infectious agents, the infectious agent itself, and the environment in which the infectious agent is operating.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“that “television advertisements would be most effective if the visual display created repetitive vertical movement of the television viewers’ heads”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“Some of us, after all, are very good at expressing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us. Psychologists call these people “senders.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“For self-improvement without self-discipline, update your self-image.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“To determine a company’s mindset, we asked a diverse sample of employees at each organization how much they agreed with statements like these: When it comes to being successful, this company seems to believe that people have a certain amount of talent, and they can’t really do much to change it (fixed mindset). This company values natural intelligence and business talent more than any other characteristics (also fixed mindset). This company genuinely values the personal development and growth of its employees (growth mindset).”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success