The gems I’ve found were forged in the struggle.

Big things are coming.

The objective is to control your time – a non-renewable resource – and apply it where you have the highest leverage or enjoyment.

Options – the ability to choose – is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money – a lot more money – by doing half of what you are doing now.

I did not grow up playing tennis with Steven Spielberg and drinking wine with Jerry Seinfeld – I grew up serving coffee to those people.

Don’t save your best for volume two

It has never been easier to create content self-published, but it has never been harder to get the attention you want, or need, to really put something into orbit.

If we let the storms pass and choose to reflect, we come out better than ever.

The little things have a big emotional payback, and guess what? Chances are, at least one person you make smile is on the front lines with you, quietly battling something nearly identical.

Go to the gym and move for at least 30 minutes. For me, this is 80% of the battle.

Sometimes, it just takes one conversation with one rational person to stop a horrible irrational decision.

Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.

If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.

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.

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.

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.

The first thing I would do for anyone who’s trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.

Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive.

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.