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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

Tim Ferriss

The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
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Condition Perfection Universe Way Yourself
Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
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Change Character Money Reveal Yourself
Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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Action Avoid Busy Comfortable Criticism Discrimination Form Lazy Thinking
Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
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Beg Count Difficult Fight Learning Life Reputation Time
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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Blessing Curse Fight Freedom Help Military Minimalism
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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Action Difference Mental Remember Slow Thinking
One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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Execution Ideas Passion Steal
Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
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Better Improvement Time Yourself
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
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Close Control Eyes Myself Quality
The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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Goodness Question Way World Yourself
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
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Goal Intention Reality Right Thinking
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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Clear Command Point Simplicity Sweet Thinking Writing
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.
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Big Life Listening People Short Small Thinking
Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Dreams Name Time

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