Overanalysis has been my life story. It can be far worse than laziness, as overanalysis leads to the same lack of action but also self-loathing.

For years, I set goals, made resolutions to change direction, and nothing came of either. I was just as insecure and scared as the rest of the world.

Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and repairability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.

For overcoming fear, I think that an exercise called “fear-setting” is extremely helpful.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

Quite aside from the fact that it is impossible to understand a foreign culture without understanding its language, acquiring a new language transforms the human experience and makes you aware your own language: your own thoughts.

Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

BrainQuicken was a real learning on the job MBA.

I know nothing. I am a beginner. But I ask a lot of questions.

Thinking is mostly just asking yourself questions and answering them.

It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

Learning is such an addiction and compulsion of mine that I rarely travel somewhere without deciding first how I’ll obsess on a specific skill.

Though you can upgrade your brain domestically, traveling and relocating provides unique conditions that make progress much faster.

Information without emotion isn’t retained.

Don’t get angry, don’t get even – focus on living well and that will eat at them more than anything you can do.

Most losses or mistakes are really survivable.

Nothing breaks my heart more than seeing that person who’s struggling to lose weight who thinks that they need to run 20 miles a week. They have no desire to do it, their knees hurt, they hate it, and they’re not losing weight. And I’d like to say, ‘Well, I’ve got great news for you. You don’t ever need to run another step a day in your life, because there’s no value in that.’ “There is value in exercise, though, and I think that the most important type of exercise, especially in terms of bang for your buck, is going to be really high-intensity, heavy strength training. Strength training aids everything from glucose disposal and metabolic health to mitochondrial density and orthopedic stability. That last one might not mean much when you’re a 30-something young buck, but when you’re in your 70s, that’s the difference between a broken hip and a walk in the park.

I would emphasize that by improving your physical machine, which includes the brain, you improve all of your performance, and the transfer is incredible to business.

In practice, strictly making health #1 has real social and business ramifications. That’s a price I’ve realized I must be fine paying, or I could lose weeks or months to sickness or fatigue.

Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it’s a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.

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

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.