Last updated: 3/29/18

  • “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” - Peter Drucker

  • “To find a worthy mate, be worthy of a worthy mate.” - Charlie Munger

  • “Bad news doesn’t get better with time.” - @ben97574

  • “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do that by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

  • “My 1 repeated learning in life: There Are No Adults. Everyone’s making it up as they go along. Figure it out yourself, and do it.” - @naval

  • “Success comes from doing, not declaring.” - @sivers

  • “It doesn’t get any easier, you just get faster.” - Greg LeMond

  • “You get paid for being right first, and to be first, you can’t wait for consensus.” - @naval

  • “All writing advice, or creative advice can be boiled down to one three-word sentence: Ass in chair.” - Chris Jones (esquire)

  • “An entrepreneur without drive is just unemployed.” - @naval

  • “No one’s coming to save you from yourself.” - via @amusechimp

  • “Don’t dilute yourself with people who don’t work as hard as you.” - via @kwuchu

  • “The key to thriving in our position is endurance. The key to endurance is training on the steepest hill you can find.” - Walter Payton to Roger Craig

  • “Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.” - Jeff Bezos

  • “People pay an enormous price to avoid mild embarrassment.” - on Amos Tversky via @sknthla

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  • @naval’s laws via @timferrisTools of Titans

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  • “Simple heuristic: If you are evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path that’s more painful in the short term.” - @naval

  • “Honest feedback, the most valuable and all-too-rare form of non-financial reward that just keeps paying dividends over time.” - via @scottbelsky, @wminshew

  • “The pain cave is a place where we take stock of our courage and ask ourselves how much we are willing to give for the goals we’ve laid out.” - “Why are Runners Obsessed with the Pain Cave”

  • “One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.” - Douglas Coupland via @booknerdfession, @michael_nielsen

  • “Stop trying to use your speech to get what you want. You don’t necessarily know what you want. Instead, try to articulate what you believe to be true as carefully as possible. Then, accept the outcome.” - @jordanbpeterson

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  • “The organ that limits endurance performance is the brain… What endurance athletes must endure above all is not actual effort, but perception of effort… There is no experience like that of driving yourself to the point of wanting to give up and then not giving up.” - Excerpts from @mattfitwriter’s How Bad Do You Want It?

  • “First you make your habits, and then your habits make you”

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  • “Perfect is the enemy of done.”

  • “A man is revealed by how he treats the powerless.”

  • “Reputation comes from consistency.”

  • “Habits over choices. Reduce friction.”

  • “GOOD.” - @ben97574 @jockowillink

  • “Be deliberate with your time and focus. Before every task ask - ‘is this worth my attention?’”