The Commandment of Time: Ensure your business can be automated so that you don’t have to spend too much time managing its operations.

To every man there comes in his lifetime that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered a chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour.

True personal growth is about transcending the part of you that is not okay and needs protection.

Time is an asset that is undervalued and mindlessly squandered.

By simply becoming aware of overthinking and giving yourself space, the mind settles into clarity.

Making something public always means to write it down so it can be read. There is no such thing as a history of unwritten ideas.

But liberalism has no obvious answers to the biggest problems we face: ecological collapse and technological disruption.

We Look to Others When We Are Unsure

China’s leaders were willing to do almost anything in their fight against the coronavirus, but their effort to build a semiconductor industry took priority.

Great managers are not philosophers, entertainers, doers, or artists. They are engineers. They see their organizations as machines and work assiduously to maintain and improve them.