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Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

The most important actions are never comfortable.

Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.