If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.

The only purpose of starting is to finish

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.