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I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.
I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.
If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.
Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.
You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.
Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.
I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.
Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.
Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.
If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.
I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.
Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.
Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.
Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.
In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
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.
Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.
Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.
I'm scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.
Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.
This is a cliché, but never listen to anyone who says “You can’t do that”. Those are usually the people who can’t do it. Not you.
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.
You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.
The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.
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.
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.
If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.
Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.
I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.
Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.
The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.
When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.