In a world where nobody really knows anything, you have the incredible freedom to continually reinvest yourself and forge new paths, no matter how strange. Embrace your weird self.

For a long time, I’ve known that the key to getting started down the path of being remarkable in anything is to simply act with the intention of being remarkable.

Focus on what’s in front of you, design great days to create a great life, and try not to make the same mistake twice.

Three to five billion new consumers are coming online in the next 6 years. Holy cow, that’s extraordinary. What do they need?

Don’t use skepticism as a thinly veiled excuse for inaction or remaining in your comfort zone.

Find the cause or vehicle that interests you most and make no apologies.

“What do you want?” is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

While the world is a gold mine, you need to go digging in other people’s heads to unearth riches. Questions are your pickaxes and competitive advantage.

How can you use different belief systems, different frameworks, different principles, different tech tools to optimize your productivity and your effectiveness?

It all starts with the right questions. If you get the answers right to the wrong questions, you won’t get very far, whereas if you get even mediocre answers to the right questions, then those are the force multipliers.

How do you generate the most profit with the least effort? How do you maximize margins without sacrificing quality?

The way that you become world-class is by asking good questions.

There is no one right answer.

If the answer isn’t simple, it’s probably not the right answer.

The most common approach is very seldom the most effective and most efficient.

The options are limitless, but each path must begin with the same first step: replacing assumptions.

When you put on really effective armor, you do keep things out but you also keep a lot in.

Very often, “our” beliefs are not our own.

Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

Improving the quality of life in the world is in no fashion inferior to adding more lives.

Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

Many of our strengths in excess become or create glaring weaknesses.

The best results in life are often held back by false constructs and untested assumptions.

The commonsense rules of the ‘real world’ are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a cook you are.

You’re never as bad as they say you are, but you’re never as good as they say you are either.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitant to get in the way if you’re moving.

The goal is to find your inefficiencies in order to eliminate them and to find your strengths so you can multiply them.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Time is wasted because there is so much time available.

Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else’s time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash.

Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple — many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.

It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

Look for flexible principles so that you can then have a toolkit that’s adaptable.

“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Enough is enough. Lemmings no more. The blind quest for cash is a fool’s errand.

If you can free your time and location, your money is automatically worth 3-10 times as much.

Being financially rich and having the ability to live like a millionaire are fundamentally two very different things.

Your network is your net worth.

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.

If you find yourself saying, “But I’m making so much money” about a job or project, pay attention. “But I’m making so much money,” or “But I’m making good money” is a warning sign that you’re probably not on the right track or, at least, that you shouldn’t stay there for long. Money can always be regenerated. Time and reputation cannot.

Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

One could argue that I should work on my reactivity instead of avoiding stocks. I’d agree on tempering reactivity, but I’d disagree on fixing weaknesses as a primary investment (or life) strategy.

People are least productive in reactive mode.

It’s often what you do, not how you do it, that is the determining factor. This is the difference from being effective; doing the right things, and being efficient; doing things well whether they are important.

“Not-to-do” lists are often more effective than to-do lists for upgrading performance.

Block out at 2-3 hours to focus on one of them for today. Let the rest of the urgent but less important stuff slide. It will still be there tomorrow.