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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

There is more to you than you think, there is more than enough potential to go around. There is definite suffering and malevolence in the world. We could fix it. You haven't got anything better to do

Kids and grandkids are the legacy

Marry a great gal that likes kids - because when you get my age, you don't think about the theme parks, or the golf courses, or the shopping centers you built. You think about the kids and grandkids.

The Power of Coming Together

A billion-dollar company is just a bunch of people who could have individually built $10 million businesses, who decided to come together and build one business. The most important thing is the team.

Get your act together!
Have a vision!
Straighten our your life!
Say what you think!
Stay away from the ideological idiocies and simplicity and oversimplifications and try to put yourself together!

Listen more, dictate less!

Don't hire talented people just to tell them what to do. Listen to their ideas. And don't intimidate people into meeting arbitrary deadlines - focus on what's best for the customers and the employees.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Diversify your wealth. The first thing I ever bought that excited me was a gas station - seeing rent come in. One day the internet might shut off; you never know.

The right team comes first

Find the right team. Get the right people around you, then go after a great problem. The market opportunity has to be big enough to build a billion-dollar business - but first, you need the right team.

Never negotiate from desperation

Never put yourself in a position where you are desperate. Whenever you're in a position of desperation, you're always going to get underpaid and you'll make a bad move that could cost you $100 million.

God Never Told Us to Be Broke

God never told us to be broke. Christ gave us 37 parables, and 16 of them were about money, business, greed, and how to steward wealth. I think that's simply a part of the Bible that people don't read.

Become a good reader!

All of the successful people I know and work with around the world they're all good readers. Curiosity drives them to read. They have got to know. They just read read read read ... Become a good reader!

If you are a group of isolated humans and you meet another group of isolated humans and you trade pathogens there's a real possibility that you and everyone you know are going to be dead in no time flat

Be obsessed with your goals

You've got to be obsessed. Obsessed with your goals, obsessed with what you want to achieve in life. Wake up every day with passion, stay focused on your vision, and literally grind until you get there.

The gap between an 8 and a 10 is enormous

Every organization has 6s, 7s, and 8s. But if you want to build something truly great, you have to focus on 9s and 10s - A players only. The difference between an 8 out of 10 and a 10 out of 10 is huge.

Focus on the things you're passionate about. You won't always make money with them, but I chased what I enjoyed first. Then you figure out what's working... then you start getting lucky, and luck is key.

What do billionaires have in common?

Passion, for sure. But I’d also say many of my most successful friends are fanatical about detail - truly fanatical. Fanatical attention to detail - just knowing the little things that make a big move.