When you show someone you believe in them, they have much higher odds of being great.
Mario Harik
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The bar isn't beating the competition. The bar is: are we achieving the best we can achieve?
Mario Harik
A lot of leaders spend time on the output. You've got to spend time on the inputs.
Mario Harik
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life: think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way of success.
Swami Vivekananda
Champions behave like champions before they're champions; they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.
Bill Walsh
You don't have to make it back the way that you lost it.
Warren Buffett
So much of what we believe is the residue of someone else's thinking. Pause and question things for a moment. Is this really how it has to be? Is this really what you want?
James Clear
Be the most human person in the room.
David Armano
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Action produces information. If you're unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it's the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing.
Brian Armstrong
90% of success is not getting distracted.
Shane Parrish
I follow three rules: do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
Lou Holtz
Questions are answered as you move, not before you move.
James Clear
You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.
James Clear
Success is creating dramatically more value for the world than you create for yourself.
Vlad Tenev
The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting.
Charlie Munger
One of the most beneficial skills you can learn in life is how to consistently put yourself in a good position.
Shane Parrish
When you need clarity, subtract.
James Clear
Business is growth. You grow or you die.
Phil Knight
The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.
Naval Ravikant
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Naval Ravikant
My brain is powered by my legs.
Naval Ravikant
Success is having a positive impact on other people's lives.
Nicolai Tangen
If you have really high ambitions, you achieve great things even if you fail. If you have low ambitions, you achieve nothing even if you succeed.
Nicolai Tangen
The older I get, the more I think outstanding taste in people is the only real alpha.
Brian Halligan
What you say about yourself is forgotten. What you do for others compounds. Serve people well, and their word about you will travel further than yours ever could.
Shane Parrish
The best seek out the details.
Shane Parrish
The greatest risk is underinvesting in what works.
Shane Parrish
Obsession isn't a problem. It's an advantage.
Shane Parrish
Discipline prevails over fury.
Niccolò Machiavelli