Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.

When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.

Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.

I had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.