Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

Lack of time is lack of priorities. 

Focus on impact, not approval. 

The most important actions are never comfortable.

No hurry, no pause. 

I want to measure twice, and cut once; therefore, the vast majority of my important work is deciding what to work on. 

I’m building a snowball the size of continents. The catch: it sometimes moves at a glacial pace. Big things take time, but that’s OK – almost nothing can stop a glacier from moving once it reaches critical mass.

My definition of luxury has changed over time. Now, it’s not about owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Emergencies are seldom that.

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.

There is just less competition for bigger goals.

Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don’t want.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take.

The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?”

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

You are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn’t making you stronger, they’re making you weaker.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

There has never been a better time for testing the uncommon.

Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Don’t suffer fools or you’ll become one.

Keep it simple. Complicated answers are rarely the right answers.

10x results don’t always require 10x effort.

Remember, boredom is the enemy, not some abstract “failure”.

Competition makes you better.

I’m in it for the long haul; the adventure continues.

Everyone struggles. Take solace in that.

If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.

Focus, get the critical few done, and get out.

Take it easy, ya azizi.

Simple works, complex fails.

To have more quality and less clutter.

Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.

Just because it’s labeled “impossible” doesn’t make it even remotely impossible.

I’ve seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

The worst that could happen wasn’t crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.

Instead of thinking of the repercussions of an action, you should also be asking yourself, ‘what are the costs of inaction?’

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.

Even a small amount of non-reactive planning and reflection will completely separate you from everyone else, because you are avoiding the impulse and social pressure to multitask.

It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.

Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel. If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.

What are you good at? What could you be the best at? What makes you happy? What excites you? What makes you feel accomplished and good about yourself? What are you most proud of having accomplished in your life? Can you repeat this or further develop it? What do you enjoy sharing or experiencing with other people?

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.

The most fulfilled and effective people I know – world-famous creatives, billionaires, thought leaders, and more – look at their life’s journey as perhaps 25 percent finding themselves and 75 percent creating themselves.

When you try to something big it’s hard to fail completely.

To become “successful,” you have to say “yes” to a lot of experiments. To learn what you’re best at, or what you’re most passionate about, you have to throw a lot against the wall.

I encourage you to make huge, ambitious plans. Just remember that the big-beyond-belief things are accomplished when you deconstruct them into the smallest possible pieces and focus on each “moment of impact”, one step at the time.

We end up spending “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We’d love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.”

There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.