Suffering is Optional, Pain is Not.

Sooner or later every popular fast-growing industry becomes a slow-growing industry, and numerous analysts and prognosticators are fooled.

As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.

All the conversations in the world cruise on a crest of silence.

When we behave well, it’s rarely because we want a reward or because we fear punishment, it’s because behaving with consideration towards other people comes naturally to us.

All lasting results are produced in a sequence, are governed by principles and are grown from the inside out.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

Honest, competent, inspiring, and forward-looking are the essential characteristics people want in a leader, someone whose direction they would willingly follow.

The main forces for convergence are the diffusion of knowledge and investment in training and skills.