Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.
Robert KiyosakiRead
Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be.
Interpretation
Choose advisors wisely, seeking guidance from those who have achieved the success you desire.
This quote emphasizes the importance of selecting the right sources for advice, particularly in personal and professional growth. It suggests that one should only take counsel from individuals who have successfully navigated the paths they wish to follow, as their insights will be more relevant and beneficial for achieving one's goals.
In practice
In a speech about personal development, one could cite this quote to emphasize the importance of a supportive network.
Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.
If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.
In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.
If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.
Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.
Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.
You are not now to think what's best to do, _x000D_ As in beginnings, but what must be done, _x000D_ Being thus enter'd; and slip no advantage _x000D_ That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; _x000D_ When it is past, and prosper'd , 'twill be virtue.
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
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