Great Throughts Treasury

"Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth."

"Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage."

"Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do."

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.? You won?t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.1"

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

"Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness."

"Few people choose to (or are able to) measure the results of their action and thus measure their contribution in time. More time equals more self-worth and more reinforcement from those above and around them."

"For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible."

"First and foremost, there is a difference between being perceived as an expert and being one. In the context of business, the former is what sells product and the latter, relative to your minimal customer base, is what creates good products and prevents returns."

"Flavor is, counterintuitively, less than 10% taste and more than 90% smell."

"Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees."

"Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!"

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

"Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up."

"Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren?t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre."

"For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time? ?Someday? is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you."

"For all their bitching about what?s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they?re being held from."

"I believe that success can be measured in the number of uncomfortable conversations you?re willing to have."

"I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing."

"I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people."

"I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships."

"He had realized something while arcing in slow circles toward the earth?risks weren?t that scary once you took them. His"

"Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse."

"How has being realistic or responsible kept you from the life you want? How has doing what you should resulted in subpar experiences or regret for not having done something else?"

"Here?s a statistician joke for your next hot date: Person A: What happens when Bill Gates walks into a bar of 55 people? Person B: I don?t know. What? Person A: The average net worth jumps to more than a billion dollars!"

"Give your good bacteria an upgrade and get your microbiome in shape. Faster fat-loss and better mental health are just two of the benefits."

"His friends, drunk to the point of speaking in tongues, were asleep."

"I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined."

"I now eat four Brazil nuts and one tablespoon of almond butter first thing upon waking."

"I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a ?dealmaker.? The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable."

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

"I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time."

"I?m a big, big, big believer in testing."

"I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly."

"I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible."

"I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company."

"I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control."

"I?m not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action."

"I?ve seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all."

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

"I?m prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming."

"If I want a better-than-average career, I can?t simply ?go with the flow? and get it. Most people do just that: they wish for an outcome but make no intention-driven actions toward that outcome. If they would just do something most people would find that they get some version of the outcome they?re looking for. That?s been my secret. Stop wishing and start doing."

"If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later."

"If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny."

"If the recipe sucks, it doesn?t matter how good a cook you are."

"If the potential damage is moderate or in any way reversible, don't give people the chance to say no. Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitant to get in the way if you're moving. Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up."

"If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"

"If we define risk as ?the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,? inaction is the greatest risk of all."

"If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason."

"If you are constantly chasing the vocal minority, you are never going to be done building your product. And you will constantly be a 5 out of 10 on all of your features and you will run out of money? Focusing on just one or two features is really important."