How to Be Bold and Take Decisive Action
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky
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Don’t Cling to Your Mistakes
“Don’t cling to a mistake just because it took you a long time to make it.” —Aubrey de Grey
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What’s the Greatest Use of Your Life?
“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” —William James
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What Happens When You Limit Yourself
“If you limit yourself only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and...
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One Way to Remove Obstacles in Your Life
“The only way around is through.” —Robert Frost
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One Way to Keep Flying Towards Your Goals
“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.” —Coco Chanel
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Why It’s Imperative to Stretch Your Mind
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Stop Dreaming — Get Doing
“It’s not in the dreaming: It’s in the doing.” —Mark Cuban
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Why Knowing or Being Willing Isn’t Enough
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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Get Started Now
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
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Get What You’ve Never Had
If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.
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Rising in Life
If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club...
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Master Time
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish...
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Practice in Private
It’s what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.
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If You Can’t, You Must
If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.
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How to Be Successful
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do...
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Make the Invisible Visible
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
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Get Something Different
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
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Following a Multidisciplinary Path
If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off...
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Incredibly Powerful Feelings
I remember many late nights coming out of the Mac building when I would have the most incredibly powerful feelings...
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On Ben Franklin and Samuel Johnson: “They were both utterly brilliant men. And powerful communicators. Both have helped me all...
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Stick With It
I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
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Significance in Doing Well
Nothing well done is insignificant.
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Meaningful Pursuits
Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.
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What You Should Be Doing
People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.
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If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status...
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Like Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferraris — I wanted the independence....
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I think there’s some mythology in this idea that I’ve been this great enlightener of Warren. He hasn’t needed much...
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I want to put a ding in the universe.
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Focus is saying no to 1,000 good ideas.
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Take One Simple Idea Seriously
Take one simple idea and take it seriously.
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I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying...
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I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models.
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Because I’m the CEO, and I think it can be done.
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But if you rise high in a corporation or elsewhere in life, you have a duty to be an exemplar...
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Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your...
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Quest to Achievement
It’s not the quest to achieve one perfect goal that makes you better. It’s the skills you develop from doing...
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I would argue that passion is more important than brain power.
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Set Your Course and…
Ride your horse in the direction that it’s going.
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Being smart and doing something that no one has done before are two different things.
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I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful,...
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Being an effective teacher is a high calling.
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Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
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