Startups are about focusing and executing on a single, scalable idea rather than jumping on every good one which crosses your desk.

The futility of this situation – in which the addict’s efforts to regain control send him spiralling further out of control – is the basis of the paradoxical-sounding insight for which Alcoholics Anonymous has become famous: that you can’t truly hope to beat alcohol until you give up all hope of beating alcohol.

Success in any field, but especially in business, is about working with people, not against them.

It is not enough to simply say , 'I love you.' Nor is it enough to give love to your spouse in the way to which you feel most accustomed. If you want to give a person $100, there are many ways to do so. Y ou can give it in cash or by check or in gold or in kind. Y ou can give it in dif ferent currencies. So you ask, 'In which form do you want the hundred dollars?' In the same way you learn to give your spouse love in the way he or she finds most emotionally valuable and powerful.

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job.

Anger is always an attack on the brother ’s life, for it refuses to let him live and aims at his destruction.

If they can see themselves more clearly through our reflections, we can see ourselves more clearly through theirs.

When you betray yourself and act out a lie, you weaken your character.

There are no silver bullets for this, only lead bullets.

If we create a routine that enshrines the essentials, we will begin to execute them on autopilot. Instead of consciously pursuing the essential, it will happen without our having to think about it.