The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.
Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.
The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.
Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.
The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.
Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.
Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.
Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.
Games are all about taking risks.
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
I had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.
Success, in every case, comes from the alchemy of your health, your mind, your positive energy, and the real world situations you persistently improve for yourself.
Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.
It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.
Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.
People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.
When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.
Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.
This is a cliché, but never listen to anyone who says “You can’t do that”. Those are usually the people who can’t do it. Not you.
But business is just a vehicle for transforming the ideas in your head into something real, something tangible, that actually improves the lives of others. To create something unique and beautiful and valuable is very hard. It’s very special to do. It doesn’t happen fast.
