Quotes

How to build a good life?

How to build a good life? Answer - it's simple. it's not easy, but it's simple. Select the right ingredients, keep out the wrong ingredients and it starts with thought. Everything starts with thought. So you must be wise and careful what you think about, because that starts everything

If you took a hundred classical composers ten of them produce half the music that's played. And then if you take the ten composers and you take a thousand of their songs, thirty of those songs which is the square root of a thousand roughly speaking are played fifty percent of the time

You're not going to score on every shot. It doesn't mean you shouldn't take the shots. It doesn't mean you shouldn't try to hit the goal. But part of being able to continue to take shots is to have the strength of character to tolerate the fact that in that instance you weren't on top

What's the best thing you can do?

You need some reason to get the hell out of bed on a terrible day because you've got something good to do. What's the best thing you can do? - Transcend your current wretched and miserable self. There's meaning to be found in that. That's a meaning that's associated with responsibility

Culture is a study. It's not an amount. Somebody says - if you have an amount of money you will be cultured - the answer is: No. Culture is a study. Culture is a refinement of the mind. Tu be cultured you must study culture and practice culture.
Money does not solve the culture challenge

Learn all you can!
We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning. Don't be lazy in going through the books, building your library, coming to classes like this consistently, consistently. Some of them will be so dramatic your life will never be the same

If you want to put together a championship team, one simple requirement for all those who participate - just do your best.
If everybody does their best, whatever that brings us to #1, #2 wherever we arrive when the final count is made is OKAY if we all know when it's over - WE DID OUR BEST

Murder is a clear example that any one person any given day can forever alter the course of their life. It just happens to be a negative act. But just as sure as you can commit a negative act, you can also commit a positive act and forever alter your life. Whenever you wish. That's exciting

To be a winner...

To be a winner, you want to be disciplined, you want to know what you are doing and you want to be on the edge where your skills are being developed. That way you are at a place where losing is always a possibility, because otherwise you are not pushing yourself beyond your current capacity

Read all the books!
There's millions of books so you can't read all the books but read all the books you need to read to make you as wealthy as you want to be, as healthy as you want to be, as prosperous, as productive, as unique human being as you want to be. Don't leave those books go unread

Read the best you can, study the best you can, take the best notes you can and then do this - then you decide out of all of that which is valuable enough to try, valuable enough to do and add to the dimensions of your life that are already underway - that's the key for study, exercising the mind

What if they don't show up?

It takes self motivation to really alter your life. You don't want to give self motivation away to somebody else and make it somebody else to motivate you. The guy says - boy if somebody just come by and turn me on... - what if they don't show up? See you got to have a better plan for your life.

Take care

Take care of yourself!
Take care of your intimate partner!
Take care of your damn family!
Don't run off!
Take care of your community!
Rescue the wisdom from the past!
Stand up straight and be courageous despite the fact that life is tragic and tainted by malevolence!
That's ancient wisdom

Hard work

I know some guys that work all the time. They don't just work, they work so efficiently and so effectively and make use of every second in ways you can't even imagine unless you're in that sort of position. Doing that doesn't mean you'll succeed but not doing it certainly means that you will fail

If you really want to help somebody / motivated idiot

If you really want to help somebody, change their life you have to start changing their mind, change their philosophy. Change how they think. Somebody said - well just motivation that'll do. The answer is - NO, motivation won't do it. If a guy's an idiot and you motivate him you got a motivated idiot

Learn to measure progress!

Learn to measure progress!
Once you've set up a project, now you want to torn nothing into something, now you must measure your progress. How are you doing?
Life expects us to make measurable progress in reasonable time. That's the game of life.
Measure your own progress. Success is a numbers game

I will do it or die

"I'll do it or die". The man says: "I will climb the mountain. They've told me - It's too high, it's too far, it's too rocky, it's too difficult, it's never been done before but it's my mountain I'll climb it. Pretty soon you'll see me waving from the top, or dead on the side because I ain't coming back

Working for joy, satisfaction,.. not for money

I have some millionaire friends that keep working 10-12 hours a day, making more millions. And it's not because they need the money. It's because they need the joy and the satisfaction and the pleasure that comes from being a constant winner. It's not just the money anyway. It's the journey, not the money

How do you know when you are incrementally self improving?

Incremental self-improvement is the proper route. So how do you know when you're incrementally self improving properly? - The answer is it's deeply engaging. It's deeply meaningful. And the reason for that is you're actually adapted neurologically to identify the pathway of maximal incremental improvement

No matter what they pay I always come early and I always stay late, to invest in my own future. Is not it fascinating? Attitude is by choice. You can either choose to come early or you can choose to come late. You can either choose to leave early or you can choose to stay late. Attitude is a matter of choice

Pay attention!

Pay attention!
If you just watch you can pick up clues. Success leaves clues. If you will be a better observer of the winners and the losers those that are doing well and those that are falling behind and just take mental notes and good notes and say - I'm going to adjust what I am doing based on what I see

When writing an essay pick a topic that matters to you

How do you write a good essay? - Pick a topic that matters to you because if you are not writing about something that matters to you it's like you are not living something that's meaningful. It's wrong. You are not going to write a good essay because you are wrong write to begin with. It has to matter to you

Poor people can talk and rich people can talk, looks like rich people talk better. It's just learning A skill with a high degree of precision. Learning to speak is called survival, learning to speak well is called success. So we can speak well enough to survive or we can speak the extra well enough to succeed

Your house needs a lot of work man. There's a lot of rot in the floorboards. The plumbing is leaking. The water's coming in. You're not the sage and Saint you think you are. There's so much work you have to do on yourself that it would damn near kill you to take a look at it, to do everything you possibly can