Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

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

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.

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

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.

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.