You’re better off following your genuine intellectual curiosity rather than chasing whatever is hot right now.

Pick your one overwhelming desire. It’s okay to suffer over that one. But on all the other desires, let them go so you can be calm and peaceful and relaxed.

If you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind.

If you have an unswerving desire to do something, then usually you’ll get it.

To the experts, what looks like hard work from the outside, is play from the inside.

Whether in commerce, science, or politics, history remembers the artists.

The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

Mentors won’t make you rich. Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.

A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind.

Most of our suffering comes from avoidance.

You do not want to compete, you want to be a market of one.

The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself.

Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you.

In a billion dollar company, the employees aren’t working any harder than people in a million dollar company. They’re just doing the right things.

Work as hard as you can. Even though what you work on and who you work with are more important.

The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.

If you could literally just sit for 30 minutes and be happy, you are successful.

Earn with your mind, not your time.

As long as you can keep taking shots on goal, and you keep getting back up, eventually you’ll get through. Just stick at it.

Guard your time. It’s all you have.

Instead of asking ‘what do I want from life?’, a more powerful question is, ‘what does life want from me?’

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.