"Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want."

"A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside their control."

"Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess."

"You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough."

"Don’t take yourself so seriously. You’re just a monkey with a plan."

"Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else."

"To the experts, what looks like hard work from the outside, is play from the inside."

"The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life."

"Competing without software is like competing without electricity."

"The smarter you get, the slower you read."

"Take feedback from nature and markets, not from people."

"Investing favors the dispassionate. Markets efficiently separate emotional investors from their money."

"Guard your time. It’s all you have."

"Earn with your mind, not your time."

"Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable."

"Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first."

"What you do, who you do with, and how you do it are way more important than how hard you work."

"Live below your means for freedom."

"Busy is the death of productivity."

"The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something."

"The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example."

"The biggest mistake any performer can make is to look at the audience."