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.
Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.
The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.
Maybe thatβs enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
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