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Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living, which is fine. But if you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune, which is super fine

It's not what happens, it's what you do

It's not what happens that determines the quality or the quantity of your life. It's what you do that changes everything. What happens is about the same. What people do - that's what's different

The injunction behind religious thought, fundamentally, is that you should live your life in such a way that the suffering it has to contain because you are confined and vulnerable, is justified

The distribution of the idea of individual sovereignty and property rights and free market economies out into the non-western world is making the non-western world rich really really really fast

You don't need a massive amount to start!

In the age of AI, you don't need a massive amount to start. You just need a good idea, grit, and hard work. You can use AI to build a business plan, a prototype, an app - and then raise funding.

Faith gives strength!

My faith in God helped me endure everything I faced. Even when I had doubt or fear - or thought too highly of myself - I knew I could fall back on God, and He would lead me where I needed to be.

Commoditize Your Complements

There’s an old business saying: commoditize your complements. You don’t want to be the commodity layer - you want to build something adjacent to it. That’s where you can create real value.

You can't do what you don't know. But the key is to keep learning so that good ideas keep occurring to you - now you can do more wise things. But philosophy is where it all begins - what you know

What can never be taken away

You can lose your health, your money, and your friends. But if you have a relationship with Jesus Christ, you have something that can never be taken away. Everything I am today is because of Him.

Stand tall, stay kind

Stay kind, no matter how bad the situation you think you are in right now - it’s your moment to shine. Stay kind, be polite to people, and stand up tall. Even if you die, you won’t regret it.

Strategy, Capital, Execution

You need three things if you started in private equity: You need a strategy that makes money, you need access to money... and then you need a team of people who can execute against that strategy.

Your family is more messed up than it could be, if you were less messed up than you are. So if you just got your act together like ten percent more your family would be one percent better.
Do it!

If you are radically left and you are playing the identity politics game there is actually no such thing as free speech because you are only the mouthpiece of your group whether you know it or not

You have to pursue things of value. If you do it with other people cooperatively and competitively, then you are going to produce differential outcome because people will be differently good at it

Don't always try to make people like you, because when you're successful, you will have haters. If you're prepared to say, 'Let them say whatever they say,' then you will be ready to be very rich.

Don’t Let Life Pass You By!

Take advantage of your life. Don’t let it pass you by. Do as much as you can, achieve as much as you can, and live it to the fullest. It’s not about the destination—it’s about the journey.

The Lesson Coca-Cola Still Teaches After 100 Years

You're doing a whole lot, but you're not very visible. Perception is everything. Coca-Cola is a global name and still advertises. Never limit your growth by staying hidden - branding never sleeps.

Cash flow beats net worth!

Net worth means nothing and cash flow means everything. Everything was net worth, net worth, net worth - until you have a lot of net worth and no cash flow. That's what I learned from 2008 to 2012.

The Mispriced Opportunity Playbook

When no one else is looking, that's where you should be investing. That's where you see the best mispriced opportunities - where you can get in at very attractive discounts and make a lot of money.

Don't live in the past and don't carry the past around like a burden but simply use your past as one of your mentors, to help refine mistakes, make some changes that you can invest now in the future

I avoid the situations - not just the decision

I try not to put myself in positions where I have to make a choice. When we're going to make a bad choice, we usually know it's bad automatically. So I avoid the situations - not just the decision.

Hire the best people and help them get rich

Build a company that is absolutely irresistible - the best value proposition in your space. Then hire the smartest and best people and help them get rich. There's nothing more important than people.

If enough of us realized divine responsibility sufficiently, there is nothing we could not accomplish, there is no desert we could not make bloom, there is no reason for zero sum malthusian pessimism

The landscape of interpretation is almost infinite but the landscape of applicable functional interpretation is unbelievably constrained and I think that constraint system is what we regard as ethics