It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.

The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.

Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.

Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?