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Growth Through Better People

The goal is to be the dumbest guy in the room. If you're the smartest guy in the room, you're in the wrong room.

Hire for intelligence, not credentials

I never require the people who work for me to have specific educational qualifications. I need them to be smart.

Focus on What You Do Best

Forget the stuff you're bad at. Focus on the things you're really good at, and hire other people to do the rest.

Attributes, that made me who I am today: 1) Hard work, 2) Discipline, 3) Deferred gratification and consumption.

Never Let the Old Man In

Never let the old man in. The old man is a concept of aging, retiring, disability, and not having new abilities.

Understand Before You Invest

Just learning... learning a company, understanding a company, and investing in that business, public or private.

Resolve says - I will. Two of the most powerful words in the language - I WILL. Shortly put - I will do it or die

Everything around you is full of potential. Everything! Maybe more potential than you could ever possibly utilize

You have to work hard. You got to put hours!

Once you find something you got to stick with it and see it through. You have to work hard. You got to put hours.

You have to educate yourself!

If you don't learn, you'll always need someone to explain. You have to educate yourself - slowly, slowly, slowly.

Scaling Slowly Beats Scaling Fast

Don't try to go from zero to 100, grow zero to 5%, then 10%, 15% - take your time. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

Learn fast, improve faster

You need to learn fast, absorb quickly, and think critically - then you will create something better than before.

Love your business. Know your business

I love what I do, and I know what I do very well. If you don't truly understand your business, you cannot run it.

Surround Yourself With People Going Somewhere

Two poor men cannot help each other. I got where I am because of friendships with people who are going somewhere.

Work Is Part of Life

Work is the completion of intention. Life is all about intention, 24 hours a day. I work to live, I live to work.

If you don't stand up for your beliefs you leave yourself bereft. You are open to the depredations of the infinite

The square root of the number of people under consideration have half of whatever it is that's under consideration

Confront chaos voluntarily
Establish and revivify order
Constrain malevolence
That's a good three-part for life

Discipline Is a Personal Investment Bank

When there's an opportunity to invest in your own discipline and you pass it up, you're actually hurting yourself.

Build from mastery

If you learn to do one thing exceptionally well, you can expand your knowledge from the mastery of that one thing.

Be a Living, Breathing Homework Machine

I'm a living, breathing homework machine, man! I'm a heavy reader. That's one of the things I learned from prison.

When someone says no or doesn’t understand you, take it, learn from it, and add it to your toolkit going forward.

Execution Beats Ideas!

Most people don't fail because they lack ideas - they fail because they never start. They're allergic to execution.

The more successful you become, the more rejection you'll face

The more successful you become in life, the more you realize you're going to fail a lot and get a lot of rejection.