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Tragedy combined with betrayal and malevolence makes life even worse. Especially if it's self induced. You need something to set against that so you don't get bitter and resentful. What do you set against that? Doing something worthwhile!

Why I Wanted to Be Famous

I was a shy extrovert. I always wanted to connect with people and be popular. I had this scarcity mindset - I wanted to be rich and famous because, growing up, I felt like I didn’t get the attention I needed from my parents or my peers.

How many languages can a child learn?

I asked a school teacher - How many languages can a child learn ?
Here is what she said - As many as you will teach them.
They don't lack capacity;
They don't lack intelligence;
Certainly don't lack curiosity;
They only lack a TEACHER

Agreeable people don't make as much money and the reason for that is to make money you actually have to be disagreeable. Because you have to go to your boss and say - give me some bloody money or something you don't like will happen to you

Your identity can become your prison

A person is more than a personality. We're far bigger than we allow ourselves to be - far more than the race, creed, color, city, or country we confine ourselves to. The idea of who we are can become the prison that keeps us from excelling.

The Power of Your Support System

Nobody does it alone. Maybe it’s the person you marry, your parents, a brother or sister, or a friend. Having the right people around you - people who believe in you and root for you when things don’t go right - is incredibly important.

Despite how tragic life is and how malevolent things are, our spirit has the capacity to confront it courageously and fix it, not only to deal with it psychologically but to deal with it practically. And that we could make things much better

Fail, learn, fail better

Don’t be afraid of failure. I failed many thousand times. Every time I failed, I learned. Next time I failed, I failed better, and I stood up again and failed better - until one day someone told me, “Yo bro, you’re now the champion.”

What They Don't Teach You at Harvard

There's a book called "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard". It was written by a Harvard graduate who started IMG, the management group representing people like Jack Nicklaus. What they don't teach you at Harvard is how to deal with people.

The closest a human being could ever get to direct confrontation with the absolute unknown was to look up at the night sky.
Because the night sky, especially when it's sprinkled with stars confronts you directly with the fact of the infinite

Born to Be Productive

- Have you ever been depressed?
- Only momentarily. Depression is a synonym for “you’re not being busy.” You’re born to be productive! God made us to be active, to be like Him. Come on, man - get up and be productive. You can do it.

Success Must Be Continuously Created

You create success - it's not like it's a jewel that you've got and you don't have to do anything else. You have to continue to outcreate. I'm in the business of making people healthy again, and the more people I can make healthy, the better.

If you want to change the world you start from yourself and work outward because you build your competence that way.
I don't know how you can go out and protest the structure of the entire economic system if you can't keep your room organized

The Mindset Behind Extraordinary Achievement

Is Zuckerberg that much better than me? Is Elon that much better than me? Why are they better than me? They're not. And if you just have that self-belief, that self-talk, I think you're going to be able to achieve amazing things. It's mindset!

Let down the barriers, take down the walls

Sometimes from the bitterest experience comes the greatest awakening. So let down the barriers. Take down the walls. The same wall that keeps out disappointment keeps out happiness. Let life touch you, don't let it kill you but let it touch you

Where is the meaning? - The meaning is in responsibility. It's a burden but voluntarily hoisted. It's the place of maximal meaning and the more responsibility you take the more meaning you have and that's the antidote to the catastrophe of life

What you recognize is what your company becomes

None of our awards are based on sales. Not a single one. It's all culture and core value driven. I get to come in every day with hungry, ambitious, really good, centered people that inspire me. There's a mutual energy exchange. It energizes me.

Money Can't Buy Happiness

Money will never get you true happiness. You can have security, it can help set you up to learn about yourself so that you can learn what really will give you and drive happiness for yourself, but it is probably not going to be extrinsic things.

Make rest a necessity not an objective. The objective of life is not to rest. The objective of life is to accomplish. Full growth. Full accomplishment. Test the outer limits of your abilities. That's what life is all about. See what all you can do

Get the hell out of where you are safe into what you don't know. You are going to find the catastrophes of life but if you keep yourself morally oriented and you make the right sacrifices then you can transcend the catastrophe of being and prevail

No matter how bad your situation is, if you stand up and face it, with a noble vision, with discipline and intent, you can go far farther to overcoming it than you can imagine. And that's the principle upon which you should predicate your behavior

If you are capable of making a half million dollars a year and you make $50,000 a year, we call you LOSER.
We don't call you LOSER because of the difference between $50,000 and a half million, we call you LOSER because you are not doing your best

Meta rule - you have to discipline yourself

The rule might not be - "follow this rule!"
The rule might be - "you have to follow some rules!"
It's a meta rule - "you have to discipline yourself"
And the issue is how? That's not really the relevant question. You can pick a disciplinary path

Create a business that runs without you!

When you're selling a company, you want to sell a company that doesn't have you attached to it. I would remove myself as part of the company. They call that the key man risk. Disney's the best business because Mickey Mouse isn't in the negotiation.