Superior investing requires both generating returns and controlling risk. And recognizing risk is an absolute prerequisite for its control.

Get precise on what you want, how you'll achieve it, and set a deadline. Your plan should list every single small step and action you'll take to achieve your goal, and be something you work on diligently.

If you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.

Problems add a sense of meaning and importance to our lives. Some of the greatest moments of one’s life are not pleasant, not successful, not known, and not positive.

Learning with a purpose increases your attention, comprehension, retention, and organizes your thoughts.

So it is very important that the founder gets a signed agreement from his employer that states clearly that what the founder makes belongs to the founder. If not, the founder should leave his job asap.

What if we stopped celebrating being busy as a measurement of importance? What if instead we celebrated how much time we had spent listening, pondering, meditating and enjoying time with the most important people in our lives?

A man cannot get rid of the responsibility for his own actions.

Courage is listening, learning, unlearning, knowing when to lead, and knowing when to let others lead.⁣

The Ordeal can be defined as the moment the hero faces his greatest fear. For most people this is death, but in many stories it's just whatever the hero is most afraid of: facing up to a phobia, challenging a rival, or roughing out a storm or a political crisis.