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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.

You are living in an incredible time, do not waste it. Because what happens in the next 10 or 20 years is going to be unprecedented in human history.

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.

Proximity Is Power

You have to be in the right place. Look at the cars around: Ferrari, Ferrari, McLaren. Location - when already rich people are here. Proximity is power.

No one person has all the answers. No one person has all the ideas. We need to gather ideas from a variety of voices and from a variety of experience ...

It's not like what's coming isn't dangerous, it's dangerous, but your best bet is to be dancing on your feet and ready for it, pay attention and be awake

If you feel it, take the risk!

Follow your gut! Only 2 out of 10 people are going to be entrepreneurs. If you feel it, take the risk. Step out and do it. If it's in you, you can do it.

Invest early, confidently, don't speculate!

Every kid should be invested in the stock market. You buy the S&P 500 and that's all you need to know. Invest early, invest confidently, don't speculate.

Character shows in hard times

When nobody has anything, you find out who people really are. When all they have to offer is their handshake and their love, that's their true character.

Success creates the urge to achieve more

Seeing my name on the side of a building makes me feel happy and proud. But more than anything, it creates a sense of urgency in me to achieve even more.

Your Word Is Your Currency

Word is everything. I won't deal with somebody the minute they've broken their word and have done nothing to compensate. You've got to stand on business.

The book that taught me everything

I only have one book I recommend to everyone: How to Win Friends and Influence People. It sounds boring, but just read it - I learned everything from it.

Who Controls Energy Controls Power

Whenever there’s a shift in the dominant source of energy, there’s a shift in economic power. Right now, there’s a shift occurring towards nuclear.

There is only one reason to remember the past - to be prepared for the future.
What you are supposed to do it to take the past and extract wisdom from it

Let's pick the one in a hundred most aggressive person from the random population. Well, they are all men. And that's why all the people in prison are men