Choose Your Enemies Wisely Quotes

“the key to an organization’s long-term success is its practice of accountability and the degree to which its leaders hold themselves and their teams accountable for the decisions they make.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“When you decide on the award in advance of achieving your dream, you are programming your mind to believe I’m willing to pay a price because this reward is going to happen.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“When you’re on a mission, you don’t need motivation.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“You judge an enemy based on the amount of emotion they create.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“Choose a new and more powerful enemy. The process never ends which is why you must graduating to new enemies.

When most people reach a certain level of success, they flatline. Without new enemies to drive them, not only do they get complacent, but they also stop solidifying each building block.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“The 6 Biggest Mistakes of Business Planning 1. Not having a plan 2. Not examining last year’s plan 3. Not having an enemy that acts like rocket fuel 4. Failing to integrate logic and emotion in the current plan 5. Not making it a living document—don’t use it to manage 6. Not sharing it (so no one could hold you accountable)”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“I don’t get excited about ideas. I get excited about entrepreneurs. I don’t put my faith in technology. I put it in a CEO.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“Assign each new hire to read a book and write a one-page report so you can see how serious they are about working there.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“When you see a problem or an opportunity, I want you to shift your thinking from “We need a solution for that” to “We need a system for that.” A solution is a onetime fix that requires you to keep reinventing the wheel and puts you in a reactionary place. A system is an ongoing activity that becomes duplicatable.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“Thinking about how you will celebrate makes your dreams come alive.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“You can predict success by how quickly people move at the speed of instruction.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“What three words don’t you ever want to hear said about you? What three words do you want attributed to you?”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“Choose enemies that give you energy, not drain your energy.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few

“I didn’t realize that, to find the key to my success, exactly what I needed was someone to insult my last name and my father. I learned that I do better fighting for others than for myself.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Choose Your Enemies Wisely: Business Planning for the Audacious Few