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Success is a team effort

Get investors and surround yourself with people who have technology, money, and knowledge. Work together instead of trying to do it all by yourself.

A Responsibility to Give Back

I believe in giving back and paying taxes. I don't believe in running off and living in a tax-free environment. Billionaires should pay their taxes.

Don't Depend on a Single Source of Income

I'm not saying everyone is meant to be an entrepreneur. But if you're dependent on one job and one source of income, that becomes financial suicide.

The Contrarian Question That Finds Every Great Investment

Ask yourself: tell me something that's right that almost no one agrees with you on. If you have an answer to that, you're going to make money on it.

There Are No Bad Deals, Only Bad Prices

No one likes to be sold, but everyone loves a good deal. Give people a good deal up front. And there's no such thing as bad deals - only bad prices.

Apply AI to What You Already Know and Get Rich

Don't be specific about which part of AI. You can apply AI to any industry. Pick any vertical you have experience in and figure out how to apply AI.

Something can have evolved as a virtue in some circumstances and still be of the type that if magnified beyond its proper limits becomes pathological

If you have good measures of conscientiousness and IQ, you can predict someone's success in the competitive landscape with a correlation of about 0.6

But time is best spent adding fuel to the fire!

Double down on what works. A lot of people say 'this kind of works, let's move on to the next thing.' But time is best spent adding fuel to the fire.

You Owe Your Past Nothing!

You are under no obligation to be the same person you were yesterday. You can change. People know you for a niche - but you don't have to stay there.

What the most successful people have in common

The most successful people I've known have one trait in common: humility. They simplify their lives, stay humble, and never stop listening to others.

The pursuit of getting better

How do I get to be the best? The truth is, it's a constant process - you never really get there. You're always trying to get better every single day.

People Will Surprise You

People will continue to surprise you.
Just when you think you've figured people out, you haven't.
I'm one myself, and I haven't figured myself out.

Copy, Then Conquer

Copy a business model. We’re taught at school that copying homework is bad, but in business: copy and improve slightly. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

Evolution, not revolution

There is a role for revolution right at the start of a business, but thereafter, keep evolving - or end up like Blockbuster, Nokia, and Yellow Pages.

Choose What Matters Most!

You can't be a 10 out of 10 in every area of life. Success is about knowing your priorities each day, juggling what matters most, and doing your best.

You spend 25,000 hours in school, yet most people spend only 15 to 30 minutes preparing for a job interview that will largely determine how they live.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off deadwood, and people don't like having their deadwood burnt off often because they're like 95% deadwood

The fundamental measurement of unit is the individual and the fundamental task of the individual is to engage in the process of humble self-improvement

You have to know the value of your service through and through. Be extremely confident that nobody else in the world can provide what you're providing.

If you can intelligently apply your emotions in the right direction no telling what can happen, could turn your life around, one day would be sufficient

Sort yourself out, marshal your arguments and put yourself in order so that when someone pushes you a little further than you should go, you can say no!

The problem with hierarchies is that they can get too steep and destabilize everything. That does happen. That particularly happens in the sexual domain

Sometimes the rules don't work for you

Don't wait. I didn't ask anybody for permission because sometimes the rules don't work for you. And is that OK? - I don't know. Break them and find out.