Deep Work allows people to master complex topics fast. Some of the best ideas and meaningful progress come from deep work.

The key to maintaining high moral authority is to continually follow “true north” principles.

A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

You don’t ask, you don’t get. It took me a long time to understand exactly what the phrase meant. Eventually, I figured out that it was all about losing your fear of asking.

The recognition that there are no bad teams, only bad leaders facilitates Extreme Ownership and enables leaders to build high-performance teams that dominate on any battlefield, literal or figurative.

It may be that the loss of self leads to a gain in meaning.

Ego clouds and disrupts everything: the planning process, the ability to take good advice, and the ability to accept constructive criticism.

You are important and deserve respect. You have a vital role to play in this world.

Because personality changes more than we expect with time, experience, and different contexts, we are ill-equipped to make ironclad long-term goals when our past consists of little time, few experiences, and a narrow range of contexts.

None of us controls the circumstances in our lives, but we control how we show up and how hard we try.